The Steve rule states that every group of fifteen or more programmers will have more guys with the same name than women. Yesterday’s event fulfilled not just the Steve rule, but the Steve rule squared. Not only were there more guys with the same name than there were women (which isn’t hard) – there were more such name groups than there were women. The participant list showed 3x Anders, 3x Joakim, and a few 2-name groups – and one single woman.

I’d expected to be in a minority but not that extreme!