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Posts tagged ‘ubuntu’

2010.11.07   Linkspam migrating south for the winter (8th November, 2010)   (2)

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: ...

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2010.10.29   Linkspam is idealized into powerlessness (29th October, 2010)   (6)

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 ...

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2010.08.01   Shuttleworth apologises for last year’s comments at LinuxCon   (4)

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 ...

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2010.04.18   Quick hit: Win her a Netbook!   (0)

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 ...

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2010.04.13   Cathy Malmrose of ZaReason: Linux Entrepreneur   (4)

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 ...

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2010.03.17   Spamjazzling (18th March, 2010)   (1)

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 ...

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2010.02.08   Quick Hit: Events for March – IWD2010 and Ada Lovelace   (3)

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 ...

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