Posts tagged ‘free software’

I just ran across Karen Rustad’s “How to teach programming: shy, practical people edition.” She cared more about making practical things than about what she perceived as “coding,” so her early technical life centered on ...

One thing I love about open stuff, such as open source communities, is that we (try to) measure people by what they contribute. I’m now Volunteer Development Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation (although I am ...

Mirabai Knight is a Certified CART Provider (realtime stenographer for the deaf and hard of hearing) in New York City. When she was 11, her older brother introduced her to the concept of free software. ...

The Free Software Foundations Women’s Caucus grew out of the September 2009 FSF mini-summit on women in Free Software. The Caucus has now released their initial findings and recommendations, here’s an excerpt: We identified a ...

I’ve been talking to some of the organizers of LinuxCon, and they are very interested in making sure that all women in the Linux community feel encouraged to submit a CFP to speak at LinuxCon. ...

Does anyone know if a new carnival owner was found for the Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans? There was a call for help up at Free to Good Home: The Carnival of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Horror wants women to scream, but not to talk – The British Fantasy Association interviews 16 horror writers. None of them women. Overview of English grammar by Suzette Haden Elgin. 11 post series and still ...

I’m going to be keynoting two conferences in the next month or so with extended remixes of the talk I gave at OSCON about women in open source, Standing Out in the Crowd. I’m very ...

Terri recently pointed out that one way to involve more women in open source is to hire them into open source companies, an approach which works for other technology sectors as well. I’m looking for ...

Just how “mini” is this FSF mini-summit on women in Free Software anyway? We know that Deb Nicholson, Hillary Rettig, and Stormy Peters will be there, but who else will be? I wasn’t invited. I ...

Unicorn check-in time for women in open source! Bruce Perens seems to think that women aren’t passionate about open source software: What I meant was that there are more women who hold technical jobs than ...

As I mentioned in the link roundup, the LWN thread on the Free Software Foundation’s women in Free Software mini-summit will burn your sanity points. But there’s an interesting comment thread involving Matthew Garrett (mjg59) ...

The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on women in Free Software on September 19. Seth Schoen notes that “I guess the venue and timing could be a challenge for some people (it doesn’t ...

I’m in Buenos Aires this week for Wikimania, the annual conference for the Wikimedia community. Also in town: Richard Stallman. Today he gave a public talk at the Teatro Presidente Alvear about Free Software, and ...