Posts tagged ‘ubuntu’

It’s official, over 5% of Ubuntu Members are women! Stephen Fry declares the Stephen-Fry-says-women-don’t-enjoy-sex discussion Silliness (pushback at, for example, Ideologically Impure and Pickled Think via tigtog and also Rules for Anchorites). Truthout About Kyriarchy: ...

San Francisco, USA: Women 2.0 PITCH Night, 4th November: Watch the finalists of the Startup Competition pitch live, learn firsthand from successful female startup founders how they grew their ideas into industry-changing businesses, and network ...

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 ...

The Ubuntu Women team ran a competition a few months ago to gather stories documenting how women adopted the Ubuntu distribution as their computer operating system of choice. Based on the success of that competition, they ...

I recently was looking for an ethically sourced Linux laptop and came across ZaReason. CEO Cathy Malmrose‘s candid answers to my questions were the deciding factor in my decision to buy ZaReason. I saw her ...

The ch!cktionary brings us The Five Types Of Haters Female Bloggers Encounter (And What To Do About Them) (warning: anti-women and other hateful comments are quoted extensively in the post) Is your geekdom more fundamental ...

A few relevant things are going on in March which our readers might find interesting. The first off the rank is International Women’s Day (IWD) which will be on March 8th. From the website: International ...

How the Geek Stereotype Stunts Computer Science: Lisa Grossman, writer of "Of Geeks and Girls", responds to some Hacker News comments: “The entrance fee to a computer science career is membership in geek culture, and ...

Margarita Manterola of the Debian project writes about Software Libre, Pasión de Mujeres, a free software event in Argentina where all of the speakers will be women We are all pretty WEIRD: noting that most ...

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 ...

Lyz Krumbach writes “Issues of Women in Open Source” for Ubuntu Open Week, and “Why?” to answer the question of whether and how women’s groups help. A great article about 5th grade girls visiting Yahoo! ...

Elizabeth Krumbach is a long time linux user and contributer who was elected to the Ubuntu Community Council last month. (Congrats Lyz!) These are some of her thoughts on the question, “Why are you involved ...

Rikki Kite interviews Juliet Kemp and Ellen Siever (both authors of Linux books) ¡Bienvenidos a la Boca del Infierno! — where are the Latino/as in Buffy? Also, check out the new blog SciFi Latino for ...

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. ...

The Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision 2010 awards, honouring “women making significant contributions in the areas of Innovation, Social Impact and Leadership” are taking nominations until December 11. the f word looked at salaries ...

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 ...