Posts tagged ‘ubuntu’
2009.12.17 Our degenerate modern linkspamming society (18th December, 2009) (8)
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 ...
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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 ...
Full Story »2009.11.26 The Mists of Linkspam (26th November, 2009) (2)
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 ...
Full Story »2009.11.16 Pink sparkly linkspam (November 16th, 2009) (14)
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! ...
Full Story »2009.11.15 “Issues of Women in Open Source†for Ubuntu Open Week, and “Why?†(0)
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 ...
Full Story »2009.11.06 A linkspam stole my baby! (November 6th, 2009) (10)
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 ...
Full Story »2009.11.06 Mark Shuttleworth on diversity, during Ubuntu Open Week (44)
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. ...
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