Queen of Code and #GraceYinz

Gillian Jacobs (of Community fame) recently directed a documentary on the venerable Grace Hopper. If you don't know who that is (and you should), she was an early pioneer in computing - she led the team responsible for building the first compiler and is generally known as a really big deal.

If you haven't seen the documentary, it's worth your time. It's awesome. Watch it here. Go ahead, I'll wait.

Now that you've seen it, this is where I need your help!! I do a bit of work with the Women in Computer Science organization at the University of Pittsburgh. I also work at Google in Pittsburgh. Both of these organizations have common goals regarding inspiring and motivating women in the field of computing, and I think this documentary could be really inspirational to local college and high school students.

Gillian Jacobs just happens to be from our fine city of Pittsburgh and it would be AWESOME to get her to come visit Google Pittsburgh to show "Queen of Code" and discuss it with local students. Heck, we could even teach her some Java or Python while she's here (she's shown some interest).

Unfortunately I don't have any great ways of getting her attention... so I'm sending her cases of Heinz mustard (re: the App Development and Condiments episode of Community) and begging her to come.

You can find this cool design on a t-shirt at
https://www.teepublic.com/show/32756-one-true-five

If you'd also like to send Ms. Jacobs a bottle of fine Pittsburgh-based mustard and pleas for an appearance, ship it here:

Gillian Jacobs

Community - Season 6

CBS Radford Studios

4024 Radford Avenue

Bungalow 18

Studio City, CA 91604

You can also tweet to @GillianJacobs on Twitter. I'm encouraging the use of the hashtag #GraceYinz to try to get a response.

If you have any other ideas, drop a comment below!

Update, 2015-02-09:

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