Heard of geekspeakr.com? Brenda Wallace is created a place to store the names and interesting details of women speakers for conferences.
I took a snapshot of the tag cloud so far:
Yay for PostgreSQL being the only database represented! So far!
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[ I was working on a blog post about the Women In Open Source roundtable I ran, and then Brenda Wallace tweeted: “it seems reasonably easy 2 get women involved in opensource documentation, ui design, and even management. Why is it hard 2 get women coding?” Here’s my longer response, mostly with ideas I […]
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Thanks to one of Audrey’s RSS feeds, I read Women in Computer Science - An Endangered Species of a New Kind? this afternoon. About the same time, I received email from a professor at UMD who is helping organize PostgreSQL Conference East. She would like to hold a Women in Open Source Focus Group session […]
One criticism I’ve heard about my article is that I should have addressed the computing industry as a whole, rather than targeting Open Source. That the problem of women participating is much more general.
I chose to write about Open Source because that’s my community. I installed Slackware in 1995 and learned about operating systems from […]
Friday, September 28, 2007
To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source
I think we IT folks share a passion for fixing things. We solve problems other people find impossible every day. Just a small amount of that energy directed toward encouraging women to join in openly would go a long way.
Monday, September 17, 2007
I’ve read a lot about VMWare coolness at These Things Matter To Me, and saw this interview with VMWare’s CEO Diane Greene this morning. Regarding the assumption that women are less technical:
It’s just a perception. MIT is almost half women now.
[via uberpulse]
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I just finished listening to a MacVoices interview with Tatiana Apandi about the Women In Tech series. Great interview, Tatiana!
One great point she made in the intervew was the distinction between being acknowledged or singled out for being different. They were discussing Nelly Yusupova’s article Be a Part of Influencing the Future. From the interview, […]
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Friday, September 7, 2007
I really like the idea of changing the nature of computer science degrees - pairing the theory and tools with a discipline. A friend of mine chose to basically do that. She started out in chemistry and biology, switched her degree to CS and wrote an classification application for botanists for her thesis.
Still, I think […]
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Reading your article reminded me of the first technical conference I ever attended, and a woman I met who was among the first women trained by IBM to be computer technicians.
We had a small, and quiet BoF meeting and she waxed nostalgic about IBM way back then - using punch cards and how things had […]
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Here’s my comment:
I really enjoyed your article, Leslie. I completely identified with you when you said, “in an effort to be the change I wish to see in the world, I’ve distanced myself from questions of gender roles in my work.” I do this, as do many other women in technical fields.
Your experience is a […]
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