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oscon: day 2

Friday, July 27, 2007

The opening talk about Processing was really cool. On Sunday, I’d talked with Schwern and Tom Limoncelli about women’s participation in computer science. Schwern mentioned some neat visual programming environments. I think that Processing seemed like something in that direction. I want to play with it!
The overcoming bias talk was pretty boring. The idea was […]

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oscon: day 1 (continued)

Friday, July 27, 2007

I also saw Larry Wall’s Perl 6 talk - i need to look up implicit list comprehension and DFA/NFA regex syntax. Lots of neat stuff, I wish Perl 6 were coming sooner.
Luke Kanies also gave a talk about Puppet. I thought it was great, but heard some negative stuff about it from someone else. I’m […]

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oscon: day 1

Friday, July 27, 2007

This is from my notes.. no real organization.
First, I saw Tim O’Reilly do his radar talk. It seemed like a re-hash of some ideas about open data I’d heard him talk about before (last year?). His success factors for open source projects were: frictionless distro, collaborative development, freedom to build/adapt/extend and the freedom to fork.
He […]

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we need a hero

Thursday, July 26, 2007

I spoke with a woman from a university that said she thought what we needed was a hero. Somebody that would inspire people outside our industry and rally the people inside it already. And they should still be living
I named a few possibilities - kc klaffy, Allison Randal, Evi Nemeth. If you’ve got […]

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moving on from experiencing to changing the structure

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

I attended a “women in open source community ” BoF last night. I think that the intention for the BoF was good. But despite the efforts of the moderator, the discussion looped repeatedly on personal problems, and didn’t get very far into the meat of what we might really do to get more women into […]

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sharing data

Friday, July 20, 2007

I’ve been watching the Nature Precedings feed..
http://precedings.nature.com/documents/425/version/1
The researchers studied re-used vs. original data in publications containing the word “microarray”. The Odds Ratio by Disease graph pointed toward greater reuse in Leukemia and Nutritional/Metabolic Diseases. Maybe because those diseases have been studied much longer? Or the scientists who study those diseases use the public resources more? […]

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thoughts on seduce a woman today

Monday, July 16, 2007

A comment on a blog entry he made about “seducing a woman” highlights a long-running struggle in the tech community — how do women point out sexism or offense at humor in the tech community?

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women and ubuntulive

Sunday, July 15, 2007

http://wiki.oreillynet.com/ubuntulive07/index.cgi?LinuxChix
You have to look at the revision history to understand what is going on in this wiki entry. So, go ahead, go have a look.
Now, did you think, “What the fuck?”
I don’t think the gender problems are going to magically go away today, but holy crap, could you lay off the shopping advice? First, why […]

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