Do you remember those 4 brave, little, black kindergarten girls who were the first to attend a desegregated school? This is one of those girls, Leona Tate. She …
Read more →I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few weeks talking about why we have so few women in open source and web development and how to encourage more women …
Read more →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 …
Read more →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 …
Read more →Chris pointed me at this cartoon as a comment to my It’s not about not offending post and I keep finding myself looking at it. I almost always feel like …
Read more →When talking about women in free software or political correctness in general, we seem to focus on saying things that “don’t offend” the …
Read more →One of the most common questions I get asked, right after “What do you do?”, is “What does the GNOME Foundation do?” I wrote an article …
Read more →I didn’t see Danese Cooper’s talk “Why Whinging Doesn’t Work” but the title has really been bothering me. I almost titled this …
Read more →One of the things I’m passionate about is encouraging women in technology. With that in mind, I’m going to talk about something that’s never …
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