A link roundup without a bicycle (2nd October, 2009)
- Anna Martelli Ravenscroft reviews the common reasons why women don’t submit talks to conferences and urges women Pythonistas to submit to PyCon.
- Mel Chua talks about androgyny and womanhood online in Hi. My name is Mel, and I’m female… and feminist. She’s also taking Emma Jane Hogbin’s suggestion to create an award for girls in tech.
- The Ontario Linux Fest is looking for more female speakers
- No matter how “positive” and action-oriented your feminist deed is, there’s srsly always backlash. Sigh.
- Gender shouldn’t matter has an illustration of the gender balance in FOSS and some FAQs.
- Our own K. Tempest Bradford is standing up for Sisko and Janeway, and inspires Claire Light to explain why Voyager rocked.
If you have links of interest, please share them in comments here, or if you’re a delicious user, tag them “geekfeminism†to bring them to our attention.
See, I was all for Sisko. He was totally the most kick ass captain since Kirk and Kirk was a jerk about his kick assedness.
I still think one of my favourite lines was between him an Garrick.
Garrick: “Commander Sisko, I believe that this is blackmail.”
*pause*
Sisko: “Why yes it is Mr. Garrick.”
I’m paraphrasing but still.
First link rocks
I just saw an article on boingboing.net, about an effort to produce a biography of Ada Lovelace for PBS. They’re looking for statements of support.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/05/ada-lovelace-biopic.html
@FoolishOwl
Looks like Boing Boing’s permalinks are broken, or aren’t permalinks after all.