Duchess

Location: Café Olivier Utrecht
Address:
Achter Clarenburg 6
3511 JJ Utrecht
030-236 78 76
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Date: Friday, October 30, 2009
Time: from 18:00

Hi girls!

To celebrate the end of summer, we will have our next meetup on Friday, October 30, at Café Olivier in Utrecht, near Utrecht Central Station. This will be a social meet and greet, so please come and join us. We’ll be there from 18.00 until approximately 22.00.

Some of us will be having dinner there as well since we’ll be coming straight from work. Please let us know if you will be attending so we can make an appropriate reservation. It would also be nice to know if you’ll be joining us for dinner or if you will come a bit later in the evening.

As usual, you can bring a male guest if you like.

From the Devnology developer community (Original Dutch below):

Computers were once women. It was commonly known that women were better and more accurate calculators, and so they were employed for calculations at insurance companies or at military installations.

Women were also the first programmers, at least the visible ones: they were walking over the ballustrade of the ENIAC to put all the switches in the right setting according to a schema, with which the computer was programmed.

Read more on their site: Re-inventing Programming
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Computers waren ooit vrouwen. Het was algemeen bekend dat vrouwen beter en nauwkeuriger konden rekenen, dus werden zij ingezet om rekenwerk te doen bij verzekeraars, of bij militaire installaties.

Vrouwen waren ook de eerste programmeurs, tenminste de zichtbare: zij liepen over de ballustrade van de ENIAC om de schakelaars volgens een schema in te stellen, waarmee de computer werd geprogrammeerd.

Lees meer op de website: Re-inventing Programming