My sacrifice!

I’m sure some of you remember the girl who tried to buy her MacBook Pro by selling the space on the back of the screen for 50$/square inch. A genius idea!

Well, her name is Leah Culver and she is the lead developer behind Kevin Rose’s latest startup Pownce. She’s using Django for Pownce’s backend and I must say, I was quite surprised and impressed to see a girl behind the project of this magnitude. At the same time, when you think about it, being anywhere close to Kevin Rose anyone is bound to get into Web services business.

Anyway, I’ve downloaded the latest Systm episode (thanks to JAnez for pointing it out) and was blown away! Leah is a guest host with Systm’s David Randolph and is helping him “crack” the brand new iPhone, right in front of the Palo Alto Apple Store (latest Diggnation was filmed there too - get it here). Although the iPhone is thought to be “sexy” it is nothing compared with how sexy Leah is!

I mean, she’s every geek’s dream: smart, funny, cute, knows her way around computers and is actually writing code!
I have yet to meet someone like that. Sure, there are more and more girls at FRI every year but how many of them are real coders, can sit down behind a computer and don’t get up until the problem is solved, can go to a party and talk about latest and greatest JavaScript trick and gets all excited about new features in Django? Huh?! How many?!

I rest my case.

I would love to see Cyberpipe girls get more involved into building a community of girls who are interested in computers, either hardware or software. Maybe just organizing meetings, lectures and workshops and getting them to work together. I think this could influence more girls to actually creating something cool instead of just getting through college hardly knowing that there’s anything else than Windows and Java.

More Leah Culver links:
Photos at Flickr
Leah Culver’s Stupid Blog
Leah@Powce

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