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My Mom Runs Ubuntu â Update for Ada Lovelace Day
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| So this is not about a single heroine in
| technology â it is about a general movement:
| I am convinced, especially Ubuntu with itâs
| focus on an intuitive interface seems to keep
| the entry level very low and therefore
| attracts user groups that might be a suprprise
| for a lot of people. I know dozens of techie
| people stating that free operating systems are
| way too complicated to use for them. When
| telling about âMy Mom Runs Ubuntuâ they run
| out of reasons. At least there is nothing more
| convincing on using free software than people
| that are just using it on a daily basis
| without the need of telling everybody as they
| just take it as normal.
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http://www.screenage.de/blog/2010/03/24/my-mom-runs-ubuntu-update-for-ada-lovelace-day/
Women In, Near, and Around Ubuntu - Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day - Part 1
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| Mackenzie Morgan - (maco) - I met Mackenzie at
| SELF in 2009. Mackenzie is one of the first
| folks who offered me feedback on my blog
| posts, tips on how to be a better Ubuntu User,
| and how to navigate the community better.
| Mackenzie recently became an Ubuntu MOTU, and
| is active in several areas of the Ubuntu
| Community.
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http://ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu/Women-In-Near-and-Around-Ubuntu-Celebrating-Ada-Lovelace-Day-Part-1
Ada Lovelace will have her day after all
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| Nowadays her conceptions are commonplace in
| the world of technology. Sadly, her gender
| remains drastically under- represented and
| that imbalance remains particularly bad in
| the one area of computing that one would
| expect to be the most open to new ideas and
| communities â open-source software
| development.
|
| Anyone can join an open-source project.
| Communally run, you need no interviews or
| prior experience to contribute. All you
| need is a computer and an internet
| connection to start work on these free-to-
| join, free-to- distribute, free-to-
| use,software and hardware projects.
|
| In practice, open-source lags behind other
| disciplines in its gender diversity.
|
| A 2006 census of the Ubuntu community, one
| of the more consciously welcoming of open-
| source projects, showed only 2.4 per cent
| who were identified as women. This is
| profoundly worse than the level of
| involvement by women in technical
| professions or academic computer science,
| which has levels of between 10 and 30 per
| cent.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/0326/1224267091674.html
Ada Lovelace Day â My Heroines
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| âAda Lovelace Day is an international day
| of blogging (videologging, podcasting,
| comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to
| the achievements of women in technology and
| science.Womenâs contributions often go
| unacknowledged, their innovations seldom
| mentioned, their faces rarely recognised.
| We want you to tell the world about these
| unsung heroines, whatever they do. It
| doesnât matter how new or old your blog is,
| what gender you are, what language you blog
| in, or what you normally blog about â
| everyone is invited. Just sign the pledge
| and publish your blog post any time on
| Wednesday 24th March 2010.â
|
| I have many heroes that inspired me to go
| ahead. Valorie Aurora, Telsa Gwynne, Pia
| Waugh, Akkanna Peck, Carla Schroeder, so
| manyâ but today I would like to talk about
| two women, who were the most inspiring for
| me from the beginning. One is a historical
| figure, other you may not know.
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http://sulamita.net/2010/03/23/ada-lovelace-day-my-heroines/
Evi Nemeth (an Ada Lovelace day tribute)
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| These days, Evi lists her office as being
| "my sailboat, Wonderland, somewhere in the
| Caribbean." She has a relatively low
| profile in the Linux community, despite
| being one of the authors of (and the
| inspiration behind) the Linux
| Administration Handbook, but the USENIX
| crowd knows her well. Her time at CU
| launched a whole generation of hackers who
| are in the field for the joy of it, and
| every one of them thinks back fondly to one
| of the people who got them started. Well
| done, Evi; you helped make all this happen.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/380038/
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