Posts tagged ‘linux.conf.au’

Haecken CFP, gay YA, toxic menstruating women, and more.

This is a guest post by Jacinta Richardson. Jacinta runs Perl Training Australia and is a strong supporter of making IT more friendly to everyone. This is an edited version of a mailing list post. ...

Cookie of the Week* is an occasional series highlighting action in the geek community to fight sexism, in order to show that fighting sexism is possible and happening. A cookie to mjg59 (who is a ...

Warning: this entry discusses a sexualised presentation, and links to slides from that presentation. Images linked include stylised sexual violence. Note to LCA2011 attendees and other members of the technical community: discussion at Geek Feminism ...

The Haecken miniconf at linux.conf.au (January in Brisbane, Australia) has extended their Call for Papers until October 22. Sir, Can You Help Me With This?: a transman comments on becoming a goto guy: This is ...

Don’t forget that LCA2010 (Wellington NZ, January) has attendee funding programmes, including one for women and other minorities in Open Source development, and applications close this Friday, Oct 2. tigtog highlights a horrendous autism “advocacy” ...

According to Technorati, blogging is male, old. A movie about Charles Darwin is too controversial for the US market. *headdesk* Less shy of controversy, New Zealand YA author Karen Healey has written about finding cultural ...

LCA2010 (the conference usually known as “linux.conf.au”, but in New Zealand for 2010) has an initiative to sponsor diverse attendees. Google is sponsoring the LCA2010 Diversity Programme in which Open Source contributors who are members ...