Weekly tweet digest for 2010-10-03

  • Ok, didn't manage to get business cards printed. Any suggestions on a place to do them in NYC Mon/Tues? #ghc #lastminute #
  • Doubles from A & A http://flic.kr/p/8EsmJa #
  • Butter (new chicken) http://flic.kr/p/8EsQdV #
  • Placement http://flic.kr/p/8EyEKM #
  • Moon cake http://flic.kr/p/8EP3az #
  • On the train to EWR. Had my last bike ride in brooklyn and tasty doubles from A&A for a while. #
  • Experiencing opening remarks – giant video! http://twitpic.com/2tbt7k #ghc10 #
  • More than 2000 people attending #ghc10 #
  • OH: "All day long, I'm surrounded by men. And I get tired of looking at them." -Duy-Loan T. Le #
  • Duy-Loan T. Le at http://twitpic.com/2tc448 #ghc10 #
  • "Relationship building requires face-to-face connection." #ghc10 #preachit #
  • "what is considered excellence in one culture doesn't necessarily translate into another culture" #ghc10 — so true in FOSS cultures #
  • "plausable promise" – learn to release before things are completely done – @saraford — cool term #
  • "plausable promise" – learn to release before things are completely done – @saraford — cool term #ghc10 #fosstrack #
  • My business card at Grace Hopper #ghc10 http://twitpic.com/2tde6y #
  • About to participate in the panel on getting started in free and open source software. #ghc10 #
  • "a simple little fortran do loop. you don't know what that is either." -Carol Bartz #ghc10 #
  • dude. Carol Bartz just said 'biotch' and 'biotch wings' #ghc10 #
  • "You have to manage your own career… Volunteer for things." -Carol Bartz #ghc10 #
  • "Don't think of your career as a ladder – ladders are very unstable." -Carol Bartz #ghc10 #
  • Thanks so much to @lhawthorn for organizing the starting in FOSS panel with @PINguAR @terriko, Deb Nicholson and Greg Hislop and me! #ghc10 #
  • Wow, Carol Bartz's keynote was epic. #ghc10 #
  • Some Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to advertisers arst.ch/mmq via @arstechnica #noyoudint #
  • Listening to Gayatri Buragohain, the founder of http://www.fat-net.org/ talk about how she got started. She just won an award at #ghc10 #
  • heartfelt speach from Tayana Etienne, who was crucial in developing NGO collaboration in Haiti after the earthquake in January. #ghc10 #
  • Laura Haas now accepting an award for technical leadership.. cites collaboration, apprenticeship as the foundation of her success 🙂 #ghc10 #
  • "I just think about how to get people to play with me on my next project." -Laura Haas #ghc10 #
  • Omg. Dance party started at #ghc10 Headed back to the hackathon. #immanerd #
  • Guess who rules? @claire_mccabe with her bringing me a glass of wine 🙂 in reply to claire_mccabe #
  • Fran and others hacking http://flic.kr/p/8FrBKQ #
  • Fran, louiqa and pat http://flic.kr/p/8FrJmj #
  • listening to carla gomes talk about computational sustainability – aim to apply tech from compsci to sustainability research. #ghc10 #
  • Big challenge: establish interdisciplinary relationships and collaborate across fields (computational sustainability) #ghc10 #
  • loving carla gomes' use of smilie and frownie faces on slides about "diffusion process as local stochastic activation rules" #ghc10 #
  • Referencing this paper: http://bit.ly/aF5BbH in solving problem of land buying to increase population of endangered birds #ghc10 #
  • Building poverty maps is similar to species maps, and modeling process of migration – influencing cascades, picking best strategy #ghc10 #
  • Leadership: always think about how to generalize what you are doing. -Carla Gomes #ghc10 #
  • Imposter syndrome thought to be esp common wih women, but found to occur equally with men. #ghc10 #
  • "'You have just processed a petabyte of data.' Oops." #ghc10 #mapreduce #
  • PSA: biotch-wings http://www.flickr.com/photos/gailcarmichael/5041609463/in/set-72157624932418433/ #ghc10 #
  • In a talk on mentoring challenges and they are acting out a skit. Awesome!! #ghc10 #
  • OH: you should focus on the lack of spatial awareness as a commonality #ghc10 #
  • Enjoying the #ghc10 afterparty #
  • totally excited about a new project. #shiny #