My blog post about Kindle covers brought in enough revenue in December to pay for my Kindle. It now brings in enough every month to cover my Kindle reading habit. Granted, I could use that money for something else, but I like to think of it as my Kindle paying for itself. I mean, I […]
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In 2003 I gave a talk in Malaysia. What I noticed immediately is that my audience was well over half women. This was really noticeable because they were all wearing brightly colored hijabs. Usually I scan the room and count how many women I can find – usually on my fingers even in a room
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This is my update for work done for the GNOME Foundation. For a higher level overview for what I do as the Executive Director, see What do I do as Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation? or my earlier updates. Attended the FOSS Workshop. This was an event of mostly university researchers with some invited
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A month ago I set a goal for myself: no sweets nor alcohol for 30 days. In this post I’m primarily going to discuss the sweets part. I’ll address the alcohol part in another post. How did I do? I did excellent sticking to my goal. (That doesn’t mean I felt excellent just that I
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The GNOME community is extremely diverse when it comes to nationality. But we don’t have many women working on GNOME. We want to make sure that women interested in working on GNOME know they are welcome, so we have announced the GNOME Outreach Program for Women! The goal is to encourage women to participate in
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Chris Blizzard introduced me to Clay Johnson. I had such an interesting time talking to him about social networking, free and open source software, governments and fundraising that I asked if he’d share some of his points in a blog interview. Meet Clay Johnson, Director of Sunlight Labs! Hi Clay, you have a lot of
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This is my update for work done for the GNOME Foundation. For a higher level overview for what I do as the Executive Director, see What do I do as Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation? or my earlier updates. Edited a GNOME Journal article. Check out the latest issue with its multimedia focus! Published
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I was talking to Leslie Hawthorn and we had what we thought was a brilliant idea for a new business for writers. At least we'd sign up to be customers! Business idea: Writing LinkedIn Recommendations Here's how it could work: Potential customer pays for help writing a recommendation. ($10-20?) Potential customer calls writer. (Or writer
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