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Cassidy: Geek girls make a point at Linux Expo
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| Mirano Cafiero and Saskia and Malakai Wade
| really do believe that in the future women
| will play a more prominent role in the world
| of high tech and computing.
|
| No, the record to date hasn't been good. But
| you can afford to be optimistic when you're 8,
| as Saskia is, or 12, as Mirano and Malakai
| are. Still, the girls aren't leaving anything
| to chance.
|
| Which is how they found themselves last week
| standing before a crowd of people giving a
| presentation during the Women in Open Source
| segment at the Southern California Linux Expo,
| one of the biggest open-source software
| conventions on the West Coast. They were there
| to be seen and heard, never mind the old
| admonition concerning children.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mike-cassidy/ci_14478986
Column: The Linux Desktop Expansion
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| What we really want is a significant upgrade,
| something youâd normally pay for. Perhaps we
| should focus on value. Recent analysis of the
| kernel by Jon Corbet showed that 75 per cent
| of the 2.8 million lines of code in recent
| contributions were written by paid-for
| developers. That puts Linux freedom in
| context.
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http://pcplus.techradar.com/node/3197/
Recent:
Where are the Alpha Female Hackers?
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| Not surprisingly, my first thought was: who have we got in the world of free
| software? There are certainly some big names like Mitchell Baker, Chief
| Lizard Wrangler of Mozilla and Stormy Peters, Executive Director of the GNOME
| Foundation
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/where-are-famous-female-hackers.html
Women of Tech: Hear Us Roar, A Special Series from www.oreillynet.com
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| The timely new series reveals the challenges, rewards, and, sometimes,
| frustrations of being a woman in an industry still dominated by men. "Each
| day, we'll present a different woman's story that I believe will open
| readers' eyes to her unique perspective," explains Apandi. "We have
| contributions from conference organizers, authors, programmers, developers,
| and more--women who have pioneered prosperous careers in technology."
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http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5213
Macho Geek Madness
http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/100
Related:
[Fwd: [Announce] 5th Linuxchix Brazil Conference]
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| Based on the encouragement and inclusion of women in the Free and Open
| Source Software movement, but united by the ideology, Linuxchix Brazil is
| a large and highly active chapter of Linuxchix.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/247814/
Linuxchix New Zealand set up
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| Women who like Linux now have a community organisation in New
| Zealand to support them: LinuxChix NZ.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7053
Linuxchix Australia Expands
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| An Australia-wide chapter of LinuxChix has formed, for women
| living in Australia who are interested in Linux and Free Software.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/81627/index.html
SCALE 5x: Women in Open Source
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| "It was excellent, but I came with, I suppose... a little bit of
| fear that nobody was going to show up. I've dabbled with the
| idea of having similar thing at a conference that I run called
| the Ohio Linux Fest," she told me. "I absolutely feel inspired by
| this. I wondered for quite some time as to how I made the shift --
| of being able to walk into this community and feel that I would
| be accepted rather than just sit down very shyly and figure that
| I wasn't going to be accepted. I do now feel like a welcomed
| member of this community."
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http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/300/
Portrait: LinuxChix Brazil's Sulamita Garcia
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| A lot of people have bemoaned the lack of women participating
| in open source communities, but Sulamita Garcia is one of the
| few who have stepped up to do something about it. A Slackware
| user from Florianopolis, Brazil, Garcia has been heading up
| LinuxChix Brazil for four years.
|
| Garcia has been involved with Linux and open source software
| since 1999, when she was at university finishing a computer
| science degree and was tasked with testing asynchronous transfer
| mode (ATM) cards in a Linux system.
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/07/1645205&tid=12
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