- 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 around: This shouldn’t be the image of Hack Day, Yahoo! and the Objectification of Women, Yahoo apologizes for lap dancers at Taiwan Hack Day.
- The discussion about ableism on Feministing continues, with The Chat with Feministing.
- Free Trader Beowulf shares some observations about responses to sexism in FLOSS after apologising for a joke he (gender assumed) made: I stumbled upon Sexism this week.
- Adam Lawrence lists his Top 10 Reasons why Powerpoint is like a bra and Linda Wu counters with 32 Reasons a PowerPoint Slide Deck is Nothing Like a Bra.
- Shakesville highlights a 22 year old woman who has received one of the Barclays Woman of the Year awards after inventing a sustainable fridge: You Go, Grrl: Emily Cummins.
- Veronica Arreola has her own massive link roundup with women in science news: Science Grrl: It’s been a busy month for science grrls!
- Education Technology Debate has a review of Girls ICT Skills Gap: What Can Be Done?
- Cengage Learning invites people to a marketing lunch with the slogan “Come see what Mom’s cooked up at Gale’s What’s New Luncheon”, and a graphic of a woman (of colour) working in a kitchen: see Seriously, Gale? on Flickr.
- Lots of Ubuntu talk as the Ubuntu Code of Conduct is revisited:
- Rhonda refused to sign the Code of Conduct which stated that Mark Shuttleworth (“SABDFL”) is expected to be perfect. Daniel Kahn Gillmor revoked his signature of the Code for the same reason, especially given the LinuxCon keynote incident.
- Meanwhile, the Ubuntu Code of Conduct has been updated after a drafting process that began in June or so, and the statement about Mark Shuttleworth removed among other changes. Benjamin Mako Hill links to Rhonda’s entry as part of his discussion of Updating the Ubuntu Code of Conduct.
- Melissa Draper has commentary on improving the response to Code of Conduct complaints: “If you witness someone stepping on someone else’s toes; do not harangue the person with the bruised toes for being hurt, simply because you did not feel the crush.”
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