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PyLadies, a Gang of Female Computer Programmers
- damian2000 15y ago"if you ask Viklund, 37, to conjure up an imaginary computer programmer, he admits that he sees "a big, fat guy with a beard, who might smell"". he's been watching that scene with Wayne Knight (Newman) in jurassic park too many times.
- earl 15y agofrom the article: Grant Viklund, who is married to board member Sophia Viklund and serves as a volunteer mentor, says PyLadies matters not because its members are women but because getting more people into programming is a good thing overall. [...] Still, if you ask Viklund, 37, to conjure up an imaginary computer programmer, he admits that he sees "a big, fat guy with a beard, who might smell" -- the kind of "classic Linux nerd" who might have trouble socializing but who loved computers long before geek became chic. It's strange that someone who actively helps a group that exists to help women be comfortable and draw women into programming trades in such nasty stereotypes of male programmers.