Journal Otter's Journal: Bid On A Date With A Linux User! 1
The Linux Users Group of Washington State University is holding a "nerd auction". Sorority girls have volunteered to make them over to the point where someone might find them attractive enough to "fix your computer, help you with stats homework". All this is somehow supposed to increase female enrollment in CS classes.
A plan only a geek could love (Score:2)
[Ben] Ford, [president of the Linux Users Group], who has an undergraduate degree in computer science and is pursuing a master's in business management, said the idea for the nerd auction came to him in the shower.
"Here's the current plan: We'll choose a handful of brave nerds to take one for the team," Ford wrote. "The girls get to have their way with them and we'll document each makeover.
"We'll make a snazzy video and show it over dinner. After the dinner, we'll auction off the now studly nerds," a hopeful Ford wrote.
Brave nerds? Oy. I can see why this idea came to him in the shower. Still, perhaps this is a good way for Linux to gain market penetration...