Posts tagged ‘gnome’

This week’s Wednesday Geek Women are Joanmarie Diggs, self-taught programmer and contributor to Orca; Máirín Duffy, interaction designer at Red Hat; Jessica McKellar, organiser of the Boston Python Workshops; and Stormy Peters, the Head of Developer Engagement at Mozilla.

Linkspammed today: AdaCamp, gender binary science kits, Twilight and more.

Linkspammed: GNOME Women’s Outreach, swearing in the work place, poor people and ebooks, and more.

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and IBM are pleased to announce a new annual event, the BCS Karen Spärck Jones Lecture honouring women in computing research. Fran Allen will give the first lecture on ...

The GNOME project, the widely used Free Software desktop and applications project, has announced paid internships for women: The GNOME Foundation will be sponsoring at least three internships for women from December 15, 2010 through ...

John Scalzi’s post on the failure mode of “clever” is “asshole” seems awfully obvious given the number of really appallingly terrible pickup lines that people’ve tried to use on me as a geek woman. Just ...

tigtog highlights editorials and articles in Nature questioning sex bias in medical testing, particularly the exclusion of pregnant subjects. harpers_child is angry: Batman fans asked DC Comics for a in-comic memorial for Stephanie Brown, a ...

Scholarships and grants: The GNOME Foundation have opened applications for travel grants to their GUADEC conference. Applications close April 27, 2009, 19:00 UTC (not mentioned on that page) The ESA is offering scholarships for women ...

From the subverting stereotypes file: In an interview with Sherry Turkle, Christine Alvarado credits playing with My Little Pony for fostering her love for mathematics… (edit: was Christine, not Sherry as I originally published. oops, ...

Matt Zimmerman asks Who’s afraid of Ubuntu Women? Issue 17 of the GNOME Journal is available, the first with a unified theme: “Women in Open Source”. All articles were contributed by women. (Journal issues don’t ...

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 ...

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 ...