Jul 29, 2008 3:14pm GMT
I did a lot of camping as a kid, but I never went to an official 'summer camp'. Frankly, I never felt the need to go to one, and now I've found two I want to attend – Girls Rock Camp, and the Technology Goddess Day Camp. Julia King wrote an interesting article about Girl Scouts and the Technology Goddess Day Camp, called Girl Power! Summer camp grooms tomorrow's techies. According to her... more »
OSCON: Running a Successful User GroupJul 24, 2008 6:09pm GMT
On Wednesday at OSCON, Selena Deckelmann and Gabrielle Roth led a talk about how to run a successful user group. I missed the talk because I was running the Linux Pro magazine booth, but Michael Halligan wrote about the session over on NetworkWorld.com. more »
OSCON: Women in FOSS sessionJul 24, 2008 5:27pm GMT
On Wednesday, July 23, Pia Waugh presented her Women in FOSS talk at Portland's OSCON. Pia talked about some of her FOSS heroes, including Allison Randal, Stormy Peters, and Val Henson. She also discussed how we can help create change within our culture so that being a woman in tech will not be considered a "non-traditional" role. One suggestion she had is to help lead events and pr... more »
OSCON: White Camel AwardsJul 24, 2008 5:19pm GMT
AussieChix member Jacinta Richardson won a White Camel award at OSCON for her contributions to the Perl community. Jacinta wasn't at the ceremony to accept the award, but she wrote about hearing the news on her blog, saying, "Thanks again to those who nominated me; to the judges who've honoured me; to Paul for accepting the award on my behalf and to everyone else who's offered me such lo... more »
OSCON: Google-O'Reilly Open Source AwardsJul 24, 2008 5:08pm GMT
On Tuesday night, Drupal's Angela Byron won Best Contributor at the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards. Allison Randal presented the award and Angela hopped on stage to accept the award and thank her colleagues and the Drupal community. Congratulations goes out to Angela for winning this well-deserved award! more »
See Us at OSCON!Jul 22, 2008 3:12pm GMT
If you make it to OSCON this week, be sure to swing by our booth to say "Hi!" and pick up a copy of Linux Pro. See you there! more »
WITI Hall of Fame 2008 Inductees AnnouncedJul 22, 2008 3:05pm GMT
WITI announced this year's inductees for its Hall of Fame: Deborah Estrin, Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, Professor, UCLA Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, M.D., Professor of Epidemiology, The University of Texas School of Public Health Mary Lou Jepsen (formerly co-founder and CTO of One Laptop Per Child), CEO, Pixel Qi Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Professor, Department of Biomed... more »
