Posts tagged ‘mark shuttleworth’

Remember how last September in a keynote speech at LinuxCon, Mark Shuttleworth (Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life of the Ubuntu Linux project) made a series of comments including one about how “us guys” in the ...

Rick Scott is a Canadian geek who likes testing, writing, and philosophizing about software, and a regular GF commenter. Ubuntu Open Week, a series of IRC presentations by Ubuntu community members, is winding down today. ...

This week’s very special gift to the computing community, by which I mean, this week’s example of complete fail, was the Yahoo! Taiwan Open Hack Day, featuring lap dancers. Here’s the links people are passing ...

We’ve turned off comments on the original post; there were about 200 already and there’s only so much that can be said before people stop adding anything new. I wanted to let you know that ...

Cake Wrecks posts a hilarious (and of course unfortunate) collection of geeky cakes for girls in honour of GeekDad Carla Schroder has posted the second part of her Linux Today series on sexism in FOSS: ...

COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED ON THIS POST. There is a followup post here. Another conference, another sexist comment in a keynote speech by a leader in the open source community. And September was going so ...