The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will be held September 30 - October 3 in Tucson, Arizona. The GHC 2009 theme is “Creating Technology for Social Good”.  I have just submitted a proposal for the conference and will wait till mid-May to know if it gets selected.

This conference includes a large number of university students, university faculty and professionals from the computer industry.  About half of Hopper attendees are university students.

Last year, I moderated a panel discussion on “Women in the Brave New World of Free and Open Source”. It was fun to research and set up the …