Archive for August, 2009

jmtorres posts about her Bechdel-Test-passing vid show from Vividcon. Links to numerous fanvids about women relating to each other. Sarah Allen, who teaches Ruby on Rails to women, posts about Test Driven Teaching Stargate: Universe ...

If you had a research team at your disposal to study women in open source, what would you set them doing? My biggest wishlist item would be to look at retention of women in open ...

I saw the political satire In The Loop a few days back.  It passes the Bechdel test — how novel — and it struck me as a fairly geek-oriented film. We geeks like our entertainment ...

Gender gap in pay explained by choice of major Roll call: Women in Python. If you’re a woman who uses Python, go let Pam know! Notes from the DrupalChix panel at DrupalCampLA last weekend A ...

This is only the second blog I’ve written for, the other being my personal blog.  I’m still getting the hang of it, and look forward to learning a great deal from the other contributors here.  ...

Anthropologist Biella Coleman just posted “1998 and the Irish Accent is Why I Study F/OSS”. She quotes a rumination by Don Marti on 1998 as a crucial and strange year in tech: …there was all ...

Elizabeth Naramore has knocked it out of the park with Gender in IT, OSS, and PHP, and how it affects us *all*. It’s honestly the best article on women in open source that I’ve read ...

You might have noticed we added a link at the top of the page to a calendar of upcoming events that might be of interest to geek feminists. The calendar is public so you can ...

I love pair programming and working on code with other people and talking things through. In short, editing code as a social activity. If you noticed Google’s Mobwrite, it was a large scale collaborative editor, ...

Fairly recent items from around the web: The Hathor Legacy reviews and recommends “Green” by Jay Lake, a new fantasy novel about a young, bisexual woman of colour. K. Tempest Bradford on Creating Better Magazines ...

This week’s science fiction Fail came to us courtesy of a husband-and-wife team: L. Jagi Lamplighter and John C. Wright. Yesterday Skud linked to Jagi’s post-Writercon rant in favour of colourblindness – that is, the ...

Links? We got ‘em. If you see something out there that we should link to in the next go-round, drop us a comment. Video interview with BlogHer’s techies — GF blogger Liz Henry and others ...

One of my friends just got back from Pennsic, and I wish I could’ve gone, so you all get a nice Rennie-greeting. I’m Mackenzie Morgan, but the Internet knows me as “maco” (provided I am ...

This is an edited repost of a blog entry of mine from February 2009. In January 2009 I gave a talk at the LinuxChix miniconf held as part of linux.conf.au 2009. It was titled ‘Starting ...

/me waves Hi!  I’m Sumana Harihareswara, a twentysomething geeky gal living in New York City. I grew up in various US cities and states, the daughter of Indian immigrants, loving books and Star Trek. Currently ...

I’m Mary Gardiner. It’s also the name I am best known by in geekland: I go by lots of names online and can’t commit to any of them. If asked about my geekdom I tend ...