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Unlocking the clubhouse: cultural resistance and learning communities

Monday, February 8, 2010

I finished reading “Unlocking the clubhouse” on Saturday, finally. The book is only about 150 pages long, but it’s full of useful information about increasing participation of women in computer science.
The chapter that most stuck with me was chapter 6, “Persistence and Resistance: Staying in Computer Science.” I have said more than once, in [...]

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Leading without being in charge: updated slides for FOSDEM 2009

Monday, February 9, 2009

I’ve got a post about Heikki’s visibility map talk in the queue, but first I’ll post the updated slides for the user groups talk — Leading without being in charge.
Enjoy!

Leading Without Being In Charge
View more presentations from Selena Deckelmann. (tags: user groups)

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Postgres mailing list traffic over time

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Graph by Magnus Hagander

Spurred on by Bruce’s recent blog post, I spotted a fun thread on pgsql-general:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-11/msg01026.php
A few core contributors have been examining their archives and speculating why it is that some feel that they can’t keep up with mailing list traffic as well as they used to.
Reasons tossed around included:

More people involved
More patches
Contributors [...]

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