Re: Ada Lovelace Day - pledge
Penny Leach wrote @ 11/02/09 10:31:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:26:28AM +0100, Anne Ghisla wrote:
>> here is a nice initiative:
>> http://www.pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay
>
> Sorry to be the negative voice, but....
>
> I've seen this pledge in other places around the internet and it kind of
> confuses me:
>
> "I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in
> technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same."
>
> So what if 1000 other people don't do the same?
>
> Wouldn't it be better to write,
>
> "I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in
> technology whom I admire, it would be awesome if lots of other people do
> the same!"
>
> It just seems ... more positive somehow.
I think that's a "feature" of pledgebank.com. In fact you can only enter
pledges in the form
"I will <pledge> but only if <number> <sort of people> will <task>".
Best,
Meike
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