Sep 24, 2008 GMT
Normally the Ubuntu Women mailing list is a quiet one, but it saw some action overnight. In fact, the overnight activity is the only action in the Ubuntu Women archives this month. The discussion reminds me of a topic I brought up in June about using the terms guys, girls, gals, he, she, and they. To see the full topic thread, it's best to visit the Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/272826 If, however, you don't want to read through the 28+ comments in the past 12 hours, here's my summary of the discussion: Some folks are bugged by the term "Ubuntero," which led to Ubuntu bug report 272826: The term "Ubuntero", which is presumably of Spanish...ROSE Blog: Rikki's Open Source Exchange
Sep 23, 2008 GMT
Yesterday, the Anita Borg Institute announced its Change Agent Award Winners. The winners will be honored and speak at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing next month. Read the announcement to learn more about the winners: Reyyan Ayfer from Turkey, Zahara Khan from Pakistan, and Dorcas Muthoni from Kenya.Sep 23, 2008 GMT
Linux Today's Carla Schroder whipped up a list of things Linux can do that "big proprietary innovators" can't. First thing on the list: Improve with age. Thanks to commenters on the site, the list is rapidly growing.Sep 23, 2008 GMT
Last week we ran a news brief, Kroah-Hartman Attacks Canonical, about Greg Kroah-Hartman's keynote at the Linux Plumbers Conference. Greg posted his keynote online and wrote: "Here's the slides and text of my talk (well, the text is what I intended to say, the actual words that came out probably sounded a bit different.)" Readers on our site defended Canonical's contribution, saying things such as: "I personally think that Canonical contributed enormously by nearly doubling Linux desktop install base." "I would have to agree that just Ubuntu's user base to Linux is a huge deal." "If you do have a problem or a question, the solution is almost always...Sep 22, 2008 GMT
Today the Anita Borg Institute for Women opened nominations for its Women of Vision Awards: "The Women of Vision Awards honor women making significant contributions to technology in three categories: Innovation, Leadership, and Social Impact. Nominees may be submitted by high-tech companies, universities, private industry, and the general public. Nominations will be accepted online at http://anitaborg.org/initiatives/wov until January 9, 2009."Sep 18, 2008 GMT
I've been trying to figure out how to tie the Cute Overload calendar into my blog about Women in Open Source. Why would I want to do this? Because I wanted to point out that my precious pets, Maggie and Olive, are on the January 19th page of the new Cute Overload 2009 desktop calendar. It's the next best thing to winning a Pulitzer, right? If you squint really hard and cover one eye and look past the leopard-print rug (and my Velvet Underground box set and other miscellaneous clutter on the floor), you'll see a stack of Linux books on the floor by my desk in the background. Does that make this a Linux-related blog post? All of this is...Sep 18, 2008 GMT
ZendCon 2008 wraps up today in Santa Clara, California. PHPWomen's Lorna Mitchell attended and posted about the event on the site.Subscribe to our Linux Newsletters
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