Archive for October, 2009

First up, via Nat at O’Reilly Radar, I found a link to Julie Learns Python, where Julie Steele is blogging her experiences learning the programming language. She’s meeting regularly with a group who are working ...

Here’s a quick signal boost for an event that GloriaW’s organising as part of the PyArkansas unconference: Join us for two nights and one day of Python fun and folly at PyArkansas 2009. If you ...

Update Oct 30: Betty has received the offers of help she needed. Thanks. I’ve always thought of girl-wonder.org as one of geekfeminism.org’s big sisters, so here’s a signal boost for them. Karen Healey writes: As ...

“Manolith” has a list of 12 hottest geek girls. I think you can gather from the name of the site how this list is meant to go, but I was surprised to find that the ...

In a discussion a while back on Twitter, a friend asked me to point her to other geek feminists on there. I could think of lots of people on both Twitter and the various StatusNet-based ...

So, on the mailing list all the GF bloggers use, we’ve been saying “who’s going to do the open thread?” for days now and nobody’s done it. I said if nobody stepped up, I’d post ...

Happy Birthday Ursula K. Le Guin! Today in Le Guin’s honor, people are blogging birthday wishes to her and discussing her work. Here’s a starting point for today’s wishes and thoughts for her: * Happy ...

This week’s very special gift to the computing community, by which I mean, this week’s example of complete fail, was the Yahoo! Taiwan Open Hack Day, featuring lap dancers. Here’s the links people are passing ...

Trigger warning: some linked pages contain hate speech and threats of violence against women. While I completely support SourceForge’s decision to remove MikeeUSA‘s code for violation of their Terms of Service, I can’t help kinda ...

It comes up a lot in discussions of women in computer science, women who write code, women in open source. Eventually, someone brings up the fact that women score slightly lower on math tests. Clearly, ...

That’s what we like to hear. And since our PSA last week about MikeeUSA, we’ve been really pleased to see people coming out of the woodwork to say, in effect, “OMGWTF!” and “NOT COOL.” It’s ...

One of the lovely things about being an archivist is that you come across all sorts of cool and unexpected stuff, and I had a really ‘Awwww’ moment today. I’m currently sorting and cataloguing the ...

As I read Shweta Narayan’s postI would not like John Ottinger III to shut up I thought of a small incident from a few weeks ago. I was at Ephemerisle after a weekend of being ...

Anti-feminist site The Spearhead has published (note: anti-feminist link) The War on Science Fiction and Marvin Minsky, arguing that a push to market science fiction to women is going to destroy science as we know ...

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Brenda is a open source coder, who spends most of her days playing with gadgets for telcos. She blogs at coffee.geek.nz. I’m now able to declare myself a (very) active contributor to the One Laptop ...