Archive for September, 2009

While I was at Wikimania last week I was talking to a sociologist who is researching open source contributions. Turned out he’d never heard of Ohloh.net so I was glad to be able to introduce ...

TechZING! interviews Corrine Yu, 3D Engine Lead for XBOX HALO. Computer games company PopCap is advertising their new game Planets vs Zombies with ads featuring conventionally attractive… zombies, in a parody of the now notorious ...

Let’s all imagine that we’re cognitive neuroscientists and we want to do some “research” about fanfic (why fanfic? nobody knows!) and see if we can get a bunch of womengurlz to support our pet theories ...

Just how “mini” is this FSF mini-summit on women in Free Software anyway? We know that Deb Nicholson, Hillary Rettig, and Stormy Peters will be there, but who else will be? I wasn’t invited. I ...

Many geeks end up doing tech support for their extended family and friends. That’s true for women, with added dimensions. Because women are often expected to do a lot of free labor already in the ...

I mentioned in my introduction post that I haven’t had to struggle internally to identify as a feminist. But the title of this site leads to another question: is it as easy for me to ...