Archive for November, 2009

It’s an oft-voiced suggestion that rather than looking at the bad things that happen in our communities, we should focus on the good things. There’s a number of highly successful geek women already – should we not be ...

Like many but not all feminist blogs, and unlike many but not all geek blogs, we here at Geek Feminism have a comment policy which intending commenters should read: comments that don’t adhere to this ...

Rikki Kite interviews Juliet Kemp and Ellen Siever (both authors of Linux books) ¡Bienvenidos a la Boca del Infierno! — where are the Latino/as in Buffy? Also, check out the new blog SciFi Latino for ...

Yesterday at ApacheCon I met Yeliz Eseryel, a researcher from Groningen University who’s looking into leadership in open source projects. If you’re involved in any open source project and have a few minutes to spare, ...

Rick Scott is a Canadian geek who likes testing, writing, and philosophizing about software, and a regular GF commenter. Ubuntu Open Week, a series of IRC presentations by Ubuntu community members, is winding down today. ...

Behold Lauren McCarthy’s amazing Happiness Hat. It’s knitted hat that digs a spike into the back of your head when it senses that you’re not smiling. happiness hat from Lauren McCarthy on Vimeo. It’s amazingly ...

Jie Qi is majoring in mechanical engineering at Columbia University, and as her website says, she loves to make things. Now, sometimes adding electronics to classic kids toys just makes them obnoxious, but this popup ...

The Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision 2010 awards, honouring “women making significant contributions in the areas of Innovation, Social Impact and Leadership” are taking nominations until December 11. the f word looked at salaries ...