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Join Us for Open Source Day at Grace Hopper 2012
This post is lightly adapted from the original, which appeared on the Best of Systers Blog. Systers is the world’s largest email community of technical women in computing. It was founded by Anita Borg in 1987 as a small electronic … Continue reading
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Tagged foss, ghc, ghc12, ghcosd12, grace hopper, open source, systers, women in tech
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My Feminism Isn’t Good Enough for You
Or “Why We Can’t Have Nice Things….” Nice Girl (warning: this blog contains NSFW matters, as you can likely tell from the URL) has penned a post about her experience at OSCON this year and last, and I’m really glad … Continue reading
Keynoting Berlin Buzzwords Conference
I’ll be giving the Opening Keynote at the Berlin Buzzwords Conference in June, and I am incredibly excited about giving this talk and the opportunity to meet up with so many of my colleagues. For a brief teaser on the … Continue reading
Joining Red Hat
tl;dr: I’ve traded in startup life for a newly started team within Red Hat focused on helping their upstream communities. So, I like startup life: the opportunity to define one’s role in the organization, the chance to work on many … Continue reading
CASH Music: What, Why and Where You Fit In
So, I’ve mentioned my many side projects. Like in my penultimate post. And the time has come to talk about another one, namely CASH Music. I sit on CASH’s Board and provide guidance regarding outreach to the open source community, … Continue reading
Going Forth and Doing Good with Sahana
I have recently accepted an appointment to the Board of the Sahana Software Foundation (SSF), a humanitarian free and open source software project. The SSF is dedicated to the mission of saving lives by providing information management solutions that enable organizations and … Continue reading
Notes and More: Press Training for Community Projects
I was fortunate enough to attend Jennifer Cloer’s session at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit earlier this month, and her talk Press Training for Community Projects was incredibly useful. Before I say anything else, I want to thank Jennifer profusely for … Continue reading
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Thoughts on POSSCON
Yet another post in the spirit of better late than never. This year’s Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON) was my first time attending, and I have to admit that it was quite different than many conferences I’ve attended in … Continue reading
Heading to POSSCON & UMass Amherst
March has been the month of many travels. Thinking back on things, it seems March is always a busy month for travels, but it’s been quite the month. Not to mention that I’ll be starting off April with a trip … Continue reading
Research Into Recruiting and Retention in FOSS Projects
I was recently contacted by Andreas Schilling, a PhD student at Bamberg University, regarding his research into recruiting and retention for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. Andreas and I did a one hour interview, and he was kind … Continue reading
Hawthorn Landings 