Archive for November, 2009

FoolishOwl commented: I looked at Gail Carmichael’s blog post, “Quick Thoughts on Pregnancy and Grad School,” and was immediately struck by how the women commenting on it were in general agreement, based on careful thought ...

Lyz Krumbach writes “Issues of Women in Open Source” for Ubuntu Open Week, and “Why?” to answer the question of whether and how women’s groups help. A great article about 5th grade girls visiting Yahoo! ...

Elizabeth Krumbach is a long time linux user and contributer who was elected to the Ubuntu Community Council last month. (Congrats Lyz!) These are some of her thoughts on the question, “Why are you involved ...

Since the “EMACS virgins” joke incident and resulting discussion was a major point in this year’s discussions about women in Free/Libre/Open Source Software (it became major, I think, mostly due to timing; since it was ...

Dr. Susan Niebur has kindly posted a preprint of her published article on the underrepresentation of female planetary scientists in NASA mission teams (which a commenter submitted as a linkspam candidate earlier). Deborah discusses models ...

I was interviewed about open source hardware on Amber Mac‘s WebNation last week, and wanted to share the video.  Sadly I can’t embed it, but here it is: http://www.discoverychannel.ca/Showpage.aspx?sid=20743 I’d love to hear what kinda ...

Yesterday the EFF reported on a “secret” subpoena served by the U.S. government on Kristina Clair, the sysadmin for the independent news site indymedia.us. The subpoena demanded information on all IP traffic for the site. ...