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!
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!
[ 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.