Women in Technology

Article:		Social Engineering
Subject:		Bravo Leslie!
Date:		2007-09-05 04:26:30
From:		pleia2
As someone who works on a lot of technical projects, I am indebted to those women who handle some of the "Social Engineering" tasks. So, Bravo Leslie! Skills such as yours keep the projects running well, yet I find they are so often under-appreciated in the community. Far too often I see people who take these roles become jaded with them and feel that to really be a part of the project they must more hard technical skills This is terribly unfortunate, I'll be linking to this article to inspire and encourage them :)

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• Bravo Leslie!
  2007-09-18 15:12:48  Leslie Hawthorn | [View]
  
  
  Thank you for your kind words, pleia2, and for your insightful posts on a few mailing lists on which I lurk.
  
  "Far too often I see people who take these roles become jaded with them and feel that to really be a part of the project they must more hard technical skills This is terribly unfortunate,"
  
  Agreed, I have seen the same. It can be demoralizing and demotivating, and in the end it is the project which suffers when folks who do heavy-lifting in areas other than coding give up in frustration.
  
  "I'll be linking to this article to inspire and encourage them :)"
  
  That's quite the compliment - I hope the piece will be useful and helpful for them.