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 ...