Today Nicole Forsgren started an inspiring conversation on Twitter with these three tweets:
I want to do a talk: Hidden Figures of DevOps. Women’s contributions thru history. I know we’re there. I we’re erased or forgotten. Help me remember. Give me dates and names and what we did. Please RT.
— dr. nicole forsgren (@nicolefv) May 5, 2019
Example: people list dudes starting DevOps in ~2007-09(?). I started my foundational research at USENIX LISA in 2007. SODR in 2013. Not allowed to even talk about my role in SODR 2015.
I know there’s more. Let’s go!
— dr. nicole forsgren (@nicolefv) May 5, 2019
I list my example
1) because I know mine
2) because I want ladies to feel okay speaking up for themselves! This is my thread and I make the rules.Brag! If it doesn’t fit into a talk I’ll fit it into a blog post. We are amazing. 💪✨💖
— dr. nicole forsgren (@nicolefv) May 5, 2019
The huge number of responses showed great interest in documenting the forgotten contributions of women in DevOps. There were so many replies, Nicole generated a shared Google doc to make sure nothing is missed:
The response to this has been amazing — there's no way I'll be able to keep up and I'm not a trained historian (like the truly amazing @histoftech)… so I've created a google doc for us all to contribute.
Let's pitch in here: https://t.co/JfYafSik7G
— dr. nicole forsgren (@nicolefv) May 5, 2019
This is a direct link to the document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_YiL1ZGVVIlsFwoV4nlzdpXeFjQ0YBtpZd-aUNmWZHs/edit#
Here’s your chance to catch up DevOps history, crowd-sourcing accurate records of what has been accomplished by women and non-binary contributors.
What can you add?
P.S. The text of her tweets so they are searchable:
I want to do a talk: Hidden Figures of DevOps. Women’s contributions thru history. I know we’re there. I we’re erased or forgotten. Help me remember. Give me dates and names and what we did. Please RT.
Example: people list dudes starting DevOps in ~2007-09(?). I started my foundational research at USENIX LISA in 2007. SODR in 2013. Not allowed to even talk about my role in SODR 2015.
I know there’s more. Let’s go!
I list my example
1) because I know mine
2) because I want ladies to feel okay speaking up for themselves! This is my thread and I make the rules.Brag! If it doesn’t fit into a talk I’ll fit it into a blog post. We are amazing. ????✨????
The response to this has been amazing — there’s no way I’ll be able to keep up and I’m not a trained historian (like the truly amazing @histoftech)… so I’ve created a google doc for us all to contribute.
Let’s pitch in here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_YiL1ZGVVIlsFwoV4nlzdpXeFjQ0YBtpZd-aUNmWZHs/edit#
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