BPC-A: Collaborative Research: WWW.2, a Wide Web of Women

德堡大学与安妮塔·博格研究所（ABI）和弗吉尼亚大学合作，并与ACM妇女委员会（ACM- w）和国家妇女与信息技术中心（NCWIT）合作，提议创建自给自足的计算机女性区域社区。国家级的活动，如格蕾丝·霍珀计算机领域女性庆祝活动，对成千上万的女性产生了积极的影响。然而，这些措施并不能惠及所有女性。特别是，国家会议在以下方面的能力有限：从该国偏远地区招收妇女；在无法负担昂贵和耗时的全国会议旅费的机构中招收妇女；发挥领导作用；鼓励高中生参与；支持频繁的互动，以激发和维持崭露头角的学生和专业人员之间的合作。这个名为WWW.2的项目旨在克服这些障碍。该项目将创建12个新的和升级的女性计算区域庆祝活动，将学生、教师和行业代表聚集在一起，参加两年一次的会议。这些会议会增加女性人数吗？通过有意的角色建模、网络、团体和个人职业指导、提供职业信息和展示工作经验的机会来参与计算。与会者将被鼓励继续在庆祝活动之间进行互动，例如，通过成立ACM-W学生分会，举办多机构聚会，并通过wiki保持联系。关注女性（以及地区）服务的是一个因性别而强大团结的群体，但他们的经历却各不相同，个人故事因种族、民族、残疾和性取向而异。这个“女性网络”将为性别和计算机的刻板印象带来文化变革的转折点。

DePauw University with the collaboration of the Anita Borg Institute (ABI) and the University of Virginia, and in partnership with the ACM Women's Council (ACM-W) and the National Center for Women and IT (NCWIT), proposes to create self-sustaining, regional communities of women in computing. National-level activities, such as the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, have positively impacted thousands of women. They cannot, however, reach all women. In particular, national meetings have limited ability to recruit women from isolated areas of the country, to include women at institutions that cannot afford expensive and time-consuming travel to national meetings, to provide leadership roles, to encourage participation by high school students, and to support interactions that are frequent enough to spark and sustain collaborations among budding students and professionals. This project -- called WWW.2 for Wide Web of Women -- aims to overcome these impediments. The project will create twelve new and upgraded Regional Celebrations of Women in Computing that will bring students, faculty and indistry representatives together for biennial conferences. The conferences will increase women?s participation in computing through intentional role modeling, networking, group and indivudal career mentoring, providing career information, and oportunities for experiences in presenting their work. The attendees will be encouraged to continue their interactions between Celebrations, for example, by forming ACM-W student chapters, hosting multi-institutional get togethers, and maintaining connections through a wiki. Focusing on women (as well as regions) serves a population powerfully united by gender, yet diverse in experience, with personal stories varying by race, ethnicity, disability, and sexual orientation. This "Web of Women" will build momentum toward a tipping point of cultural change in stereotypes about gender and computing.