Ideas are easy. To make action out of ideas is (usually) harder.
When I (Maja) first started talking about datacenter dames, people were enthusiastic an applauded the initiative. Being my own largest critic, I always had the gnawing doubt that this reception was just polite cheering, rather than heartfelt support.
So we had a meeting with Norwegian datacenter industry. And any thoughts of “polite cheering” vanished.
Have you ever had a thing you should do, and you envision something like a flower growing – and then someone just dump a lot of fertilizer on it and it just sprouts out larger and quicker than you thought was possible?
It might just be the industry – we are in an industry where things change fast and you need to have people readily adapting change – but after the meeting with NDI, we now have both a official date for the founding meeting (September 21st, 2026), and an actual spot on Arendalsuka.
And in return? The expectation that we start the organization and act as door openers and watchdogs.
DCDames at Arendalsuka:
Wedensday August 12th at 10-11
Place: Annen Etage (Langbryggen 3, Arendal)
Round table meeting at Arendalsuka for everyone to join in on the brainstorming and the discussion. We have a lot of ideas, but ideas need… fertilazer, nurture.
And people – you are that nurture.