Posts tagged ‘free software’

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) ...