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What’s changed? Portland as an example of increasing women’s participation.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

At Code-n-Splode last night, we first heard Christie Koehler give a great talk on CodeIgniter, the one PHP web framework endorsed by Rasmus Lerdorf, original author of PHP. She went over the pros/cons, details of how you go about installing and then using CodeIgniter, and then showed a very detailed example from her recent [...]

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What works? Getting more women involved in open source.

Monday, April 27, 2009

When you have a community, and you notice that there’s an imperfect distribution in participation, what do you do?
How do you increase participation of a particular minority group? What should your goal be?
For example, if you have an open source project, and you need more programmers to contribute — what do you do? [...]

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Mentor Summit Report for PostgreSQL

Monday, October 27, 2008

Update: Fixed the etherboot wiki link.
I attended the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit this past weekend on behalf of PostgreSQL. We met at the Google campus in Mountain View.
This event was an unconference and so, none of the sessions were determined in advance.
Some of the highlights were:

Leslie Hawthorn and Chris DiBona went [...]

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geekspeakr.com

Monday, April 14, 2008

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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Women Who Code – where are they?

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

[ 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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Stormy Peters: Money, developers and creativity

Monday, February 11, 2008

Sunday’s keynote at SCaLE was given by Stormy Peters. She talked about open source, business contributions and the social and financial economies driving development.
Three of her research questions were:

What is the initial motivation that encourages people to contribute?
How do companies pay for open source contributions? (and what’s the effect?)

How do companies change projects [...]

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Women in Open Source: a focus group in March

Friday, February 1, 2008

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 [...]

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my women in tech article is up!

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.

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Women in Tech series from O’Reilly

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

It’s finally out! http://www.oreillynet.com/womenintech/
I’m not sure what day exactly my article will be published, but the first one, titled Social Engineering came out today.

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