Aug 20, 2009 4:44pm GMT
Check out this great article in PC World today: Women in IT: Success and Struggle In the article, Network World's Ellen Messmer looked at nine successful women in IT: Eva Chen, CEO of Trend Micro Grace Egan, VP of engineering product management at Time Warner Cable in Broomfield, Colorado Maria Cirino, managing director of .406 Venture Rhonda MacLean, founder of MacLean Risk Partners... more »
ROSE Blog Interviews: Ohio LinuxFest's Beth Lynn EicherAug 19, 2009 7:03pm GMT
You'll meet a lot of friendly folks in Linux and open source, but you'll probably never meet a nicer person than Ohio LinuxFest's Beth Lynn Eicher. And if you're looking for a mentor, she's got you covered. Q: Who are you? A: I am Beth Lynn Eicher, co-chair of the Ohio LinuxFest 2009: 40 Years of UNIX Celebration. For six years I have been involved with running this show. We build communi... more »
ROSE Blog Interviews: Ohio LinuxFest's MooseAug 19, 2009 6:49pm GMT
Meet Moose – When it comes to Ohio LinuxFest, she's a juggler extraordinaire and a woman who wears many hats. Q: Who are you? A: I am Moose: unemployed, disabled, System Administrator. I am the Speakers Chair for Ohio LinuxFest 2009, as well as coordinator for part of the training day the day before the conference (OLFU) and the Diversity in Open Source Workshop on Sunday. Q: What do yo... more »
ROSE Blog Interviews: Carla SchroderAug 18, 2009 8:26pm GMT
Recently I posted some interview questions and asked for volunteers to respond. Dru Lavigne and Amber Graner promptly responded (see comments). And then there was the sound of crickets chirping. I know for a fact that there are many other interesting women working and playing in open source, and plenty of them I haven't had the pleasure of meeting yet. Last week I met Kelaine Vargas at Open... more »
Green Goes Geek: Interview with Kelaine VargasAug 17, 2009 3:44pm GMT
At OpenSource World last week, I attended a talk by Kelaine Vargas, urban ecologist and project manager of the Urban Forest Mapping Project. San Francisco's Urban Forest Mapping Project is an effort to "digitally pinpoint" the location of trees, maintain tree data (e.g., planting date, location, maintenance) in a database, and offer web access to the tree data. In San Francisco, for... more »
Where do all the geek girls go?Jul 29, 2009 3:51pm GMT
Jeffrey Elkner has taught computer science for 13 years and shares some of his experience with teaching girls on his blog post: Where do all the geek girls go? Over the summer he taught two week classes on "Creative Computer Exploration with Scratch" (4th-6th graders) and "Games Programming with Python and GASP" (7th-9th graders). Jeffrey writes, "The number of 'gee... more »
Standing out in the crowd: Kirrily Robert's OSCON keynoteJul 29, 2009 3:45pm GMT
Stuck at our Linux Pro booth, I missed Kirrily's OSCON keynote. Lucky for me (and you), she's posted a summary of it online: Standing out in the crowd more »
