'Scuse me, lady. Do you gots a blog? Could you spare some time on Tuesday 24th March to publish a blog post about a techie chick you admire?
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate women excelling in technology.
The initiative, set up by Suw Charman-Anderson, blogger and social software consultant, is urging 1,000 bloggers to pledge to post.
So far 556 bloggers have signed up.
"Women's contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines."
There's more about why this is happening and who Ada Lovelace was over the jump.
So why is Suw doing this?
Recent research by psychologist Penelope Lockwood discovered that women need to see female role models more than men need to see male ones.
Suw wants to redress the balance by singing the praises of female sysadmins, tech entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, developers, tech journalists and consultants. The woman you write about doesn't need to be alive, high-profile or even (ahem) Shiny.
I might even write about my erstwhile technophobe mum who took herself off on a computer course and now is gloriously webby, with her own LiveJournal, Yahoo! Group and apparently limitless collection of pointless email forwards.
Which is quite a step considering she used to refer to computers as 'microwaves'.
And who was Ada Lovelace?
Actually she was Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, Lord Byron's only legitimate child. She was born in 1815, and was one of the world's first computer programmers.
She wrote the very first description of a computer and of software, and wrote programmes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, despite the fact that it was never built.
And despite the fact that it must have taken her about three hours to put on her flouncy dresses and curl her hair like that.
An inspiration to us all, I think.
You can sign up for Ada Lovelace Day, follow the event on Twitter, join the Yahoo! mailing list and the Facebook group.