[H-GEN] Vice President's report.

[Robert Brockway]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, David Seikel wrote:

> In the old days, when we were young, people doing computers did so 
> because they where passionate about computers.  These days it's because 
> it's a well paying job.  Any well trained suit can do it.

The thing is there are always passionate people and always people who do 
stuff to get paid.  For whatever reason we're missing the passionate IT 
geeks.

Maybe uni IT courses really do draw in less of the passionate geeks than 
they used to.  This seems quite plausible to me actually.

I think there is an interesting study in changing demographics buried in 
their somewhere.

Cheers,

Rob

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