Feb 01, 2010 7:31pm GMT
Elizabeth Krumbach wrote a blog post about the Ubuntu Women contest – How I discovered Ubuntu – in honor of International Women's Day. The winner will be announced on International Women's Day, March 8, 2010. In her blog post Elizabeth also discusses the community longevity meme and how intimidating or discouraging it can be to someone who is newer to the open source community. She says, &q... more »
Video Interview with Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell BakerFeb 01, 2010 5:36pm GMT
My colleague Mathias Huber recently interviewed Mitchell Baker when she was in Munich. We posted the video online today for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! more »
Google ACM MM 2010 Conference Grant AnnouncedFeb 01, 2010 5:27pm GMT
Female computer scientists interested in multimedia are encouraged to apply for the newly announced Google ACM MM 2010 Conference Grant. The 2010 event will be held October 25-29 in Florence, Italy, and two grants will be awarded. Deadline to apply is September, 27, 2010. more »
Liz Henry Report from Linux.conf.nz and DrupalSouthJan 27, 2010 8:17pm GMT
If you missed the recent Linux Conf in New Zealand, which was followed by DrupalSouth, you might have seen a lot of chatter about it on Twitter and various blogs. Check out the write-up Liz Henry posted over on the Geek Feminism Blog. Liz includes some nice photos with some familiar friendly faces. (Rub it in, Liz, rub it in.) more »
SCALE 8x: Women in Open Source scheduleJan 25, 2010 6:52pm GMT
The SCALE 8x schedule is finalized, including the Women in Open Source conference sessions. The WIOS conference will be a nice mix of talks, introductions, and interactions. At the end of the day, Danese Cooper will lead a session on how to give Ignite talks, which is then followed by time set aside for Ignite talks. I'm excited that my talk was selected for the conference: Pretty in Print... more »
Gals Go GNOMEJan 22, 2010 5:17pm GMT
On OStatic today Kristin Shoemaker wrote about GNOME's revamped outreach program for women. Kristin links to a post on Marina Zhurakhinskaya's blog, which provides more details about the program. Marina writes, "GNOME Outreach Program for Women will allow more women to learn how exciting and approachable the free software is and to gain the necessary qualifications to work in the free sof... more »
A Rant About Job HuntingJan 19, 2010 8:21pm GMT
This morning I had coffee with a former colleague from my days (gasp! more than two decades ago?!) as a young record store employee. We talked about how times have changed since our afternoons spent thumbing through cassettes and LPs, reminisced about the first few CDs that trickled into our store, reflected on where we went after we quit pushing The Pretenders on vinyl, and shared stories abo... more »
