Feb 13, 2008 GMT
I don't spend much time online during the weekends, unless it's absolutely necessary – such as reading movie listings or checking out how my kid's penguin is faring.
I especially avoid working on weekends whenever possible, but this usually means that I spend the first few minutes of every Monday sipping coffee and searching online news for what happened while I was offline. This catching-up process is streamlined now that I've discovered Lisa Hoover's more »
Feb 13, 2008 GMT
Sarah Stokely wrote a Linux.conf.au event report for our April issue of Linux Pro Magazine, which is trickling into the printer as I type. I noticed she has a lot of other thoughtful articles on her blog, The Open Source Report, including coverage of women in open source. For example, Sarah observes that none of the 10 winners of the Google Highly Open Participation competition are women.... more »
Feb 11, 2008 GMT
Celeste Lyn Paul spoke at SCALE on Saturday, but I missed her talk because I was (wo)manning our booth. You can read Jeff Bianchine's interview with her on the LinuxWorld site.
Feb 11, 2008 GMT
I don't know how I got here, but it was a happy accident stumbling across the Women Who Tech: A TeleSummit for Women in Technology page.
The March 31st TeleSummit includes an Open Source for Women panel:
This panel will explore how to get women more involved in developing technology and contributing to Open Source and Open Standards. What are the current barriers? What can we do to break these barriers?
Panelists: Michelle Murrain, NOSI, Leslie Hawthorn,... more »
Feb 11, 2008 GMT
On a scale from 1 to 12, I'd give SCALE 6x a dozen roses because it was one of the best conference experiences I've ever had. The SCALE staff set the tone – they were professional, friendly, helpful, and wonderful hosts. Plus, they get bonus points for the ladies t-shirt in my attendee bag. SCALE also draws a wonderful mix of attendees, vendors, and speakers.
On Friday, February 8th, I learned a bunch from the Women in Open Source conference. Allison... more »
Feb 07, 2008 GMT
Linux Pro Magazine World News columnist Patricia Jung sent in this announcement:
The call for lectures for the 11th Informatica Feminale summer university for women in IT in Bremen and Freiburg closes February 23. Jung says that although the announcement isn't in English, it invites English-speaking contributions.
Jung also says that speakers at former Informatica Feminale summer universities include Dr. Frances Grundy of Keele University and Google's Zaheda Bhorat.
Jan 30, 2008 GMT
Dice released the results of their 2007 Salary Survey and the good news is that salaries increased for tech professionals. The bad news is that only men enjoyed this increase – women's salaries held steady, increasing the gender gap by 11.9 percent (from 9.7 percent in 2006). According to the survey, "Satisfaction remained high among tech workers: more than 50 percent of respondents are happy with their salaries." I suspect that... more »
Vendor D-Wave scores big with a sale to NASA's Quantum Intelligence Lab.
Many package updates and Steam integration highlight the latest from the Mandriva-based community Linux.
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
ack is a grep-like, command-line tool that has been optimized for programmers to search large trees of source code.
New features in SUSE Studio 1.3 include enhanced cloud integration, VM platform support, and lifecycle management.
The Linux Foundation recently announced that the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
Open source version of LiveCode is now available for developing apps, games, and utilities for all major platforms.
OpenDaylight is an open source software-defined networking project committed to furthering adoption of SDN and accelerating innovation in a vendor-neutral and open environment.
