Archive for May, 2011

Welcome to round 5 of Ask a Geek Feminist! How it works: if you’ve got a question you think a geek feminist could answer, post a comment in reply to this post. (Comments will not ...

Grants to attend AppSec USA 2011: For the first time, the OWASP Foundation is gathering sponsors for a program to increase the participation of women in the field of application security. The grants are for ...

The Wednesday Geek Woman series is mostly on hiatus. Remaining WGW posts are appearing sporadically. This is a guest post. Henriette Avram, while working at Library of Congress, developed MARC, or MAchine Readable Cataloging, in ...

This is a question that was posed to the Ada Initiative. It’s a bit out of scope for us right now (we’re focussed on fundraising), so I told Robin Whitney, who posed it, that I’d ...

Win a Scholarship to National Computer Camp: GamingAngels.com and National Computer Camp (NCC) are offering a scholarship for NCC’s June/July 2011 enrollment valued at $985 to a female student (ages 8-18) for one week.
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From comments on Women in science: contrary to popular belief, some of us are actually alive!, Lindsey has started a Flickr group for “This is what a computer scientist looks like”. The group itself has ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: When choosing pictures for a conference website from the event held the previous year we have specifically looked for photos that happen to include women, to the ...

This is a guest post by Lindsey Kuper. Lindsey Kuper does math and code and music and splatters it unceremoniously all over the Internet. This post originally appeared at her blog and was linked from ...

May 13 in Boston: A project-driven introduction to Python for women and their friends (unfortunately now gone to “waiting list only” status). An open letter to the Australian SF community: However, the venue staging was ...

Edit: The deadline has been extended to May 31st. Just a quick reminder for the students here: scholarship applications to attend the 2011 Grace Hopper Celebration are due May 31st, so you’ve got a bit ...

Today’s xkcd comic is about Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, and Emmy Noether: “Just remember that if you want to do this stuff, you’re not alone.” Discuss. Transcript below the fold, courtesy of Cheryl Trooskin-Zoller:

Today’s open thread has been brought to you by your beluga best friend, who says: I know standing out isn’t always easy. Half my life is spent listening to people go WHAT THE FUCK IS ...

As a tabletop gamer who carries dice in her bag, I’m highly amused by this d&d roleplaying parody of the Far East Movement’s “Like a G6″ : Roll a D6 from Connor Anderson on Vimeo. ...