- 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 seem to be colocated with, or right before or after, anything else in particular)”. See LWN for some discussion, some much of it probably will cost you some sanity points.
- OMG! Girlz Don’t Need Games or Features! — A review of the new Lilac PSP demonstrates that Sony, like many companies before, could use some lessons on how to market games and gaming systems to women.
- Anna Filina offers her take on women in IT saying (among other things) that she hates working with women. Um?
- Late business at the Hugo Awards in which Yonmei proposes a small modification to the nomination procedures for the Hugos to help redress the gender imbalance. Result: “There was certainly considerable SMOFFISH outrage at the idea that there could be anything imperfect or biased about the Hugo nomination system which might need to be remedied.” Links to LJ discussions at the bottom of the post.
- ROSE blog interviews Erica Brescia (BitRock), Angela Brown (Linux Foundation), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), and Dru Lavigne (BSD).
- Another round of technology and gender images at Sociological Images, including a woman tied to a bed as an inducement to buy Gameboy consoles.
- Melissa McEwan (via M. LeBlanc)Â on how puzzled privileged people get when they have fun intellectual devil’s-advocate conversations about our oppression and we get personal about it.
- The GNOME development community is planning an outreach program for women similar to the 2006 outreach program. They are looking at funding women developers to work on GNOME Shell.
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Lilac PSP ad - photo by alist on Flickr
- Video interview with BlogHer’s techies — GF blogger Liz Henry and others speak about the Geek Lab they ran at the recent BlogHer conference.
- The “Where are all the women?” question, this time in open source by Laura Scott. A good summary of issues and blogger responses brought up by the OSCON keynote.
- Little Things reviews and quotes from JAMES TIPTREE, JR. The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
- Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon discusses the Epic battle of Nice Guys® vs. common sense at Penny Arcade mentioned briefly in comments here.
- Just over a year since the Fat Princess video game was released and the resulting feminist criticism of it garnered news all over the place, there’s a new post on Shakesville: A Fat Princess Speaks.
- Sony joins Dell in competition for the most idiotic marketing of tech gadgets to women: Lilac PSPs (via MeFi.)
- Worldcon and Writercon were both last weekend, and both had certain amounts of Fail in the race, gender, ability, and goddamn-near-everything-else arenas. coffeeandink has a good link roundup to start reading about what happened.
- sheafrotherdon posts OH EVERYONE EVERYWHERE NO on the “Stargate: Universe” (aka “Stargate: 90210″) casting call for a quadriplegic female scientist.