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Tag Archives: linux
Call for translations: HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux
Recently, Jason Fragoso kindly translated HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux into Belarussian. I went to add this to my list of translations of this HOWTO – and discovered that I had only a list of languages it had been translated … Continue reading
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Tagged feminism, linux
The Ada Initiative launches: promoting women in open technology and culture
As regular readers of this blog will know, I quit my kernel job in January in order to work on women in open source. Today, Mary Gardiner and I are excited to announce the launch of the Ada Initiative, a … Continue reading
LCA 2011 trip report
The LCA organizers have done it again; not even a natural disaster could prevent them from throwing a conference that lived up to the LCA standards: friendly, fun, and technical. As usual, there was something for everyone, from the hardened … Continue reading
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Tagged feminism, kernel, lca, linux
Going to LCA 2011
Just a quick note to say I just finished putting together the funding to attend this year’s Linux Conference Australia. I will be running a session at the Haecksen miniconf and volunteering at Haecksen’s Open Day booth but not speaking … Continue reading
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Tagged feminism, lca, linux, linux foundation
More eyeballs please, nom nom
It’s always a little disturbing getting a peek inside the sausage factory, especially when it comes to software and developers I have irrational faith in – like any project involving cryptography. We would all like to believe that “given enough … Continue reading
Leaving Red Hat
I’m leaving Red Hat, effective January 7th. Here’s my self-interview on the topic… Q: Why are you leaving Red Hat? A: Good question! I’ve worked for a lot of companies as a Linux kernel developer (IBM, Intel, Red Hat, etc.). … Continue reading
Back on the speaker circuit
Over the years I have attended a lot of conferences, as you can see from this photograph of my conference badge collection: The badges are sorted into columns, starting with 1995 – 2000 on the left and 2009-2010 on the … Continue reading
An inside look at being a woman in open source
A few weeks ago, I blogged about how widespread sexual harassment at open source conferences is and suggested that open source conference organizers should adopt an official policy taking a stand against all forms of harassment at their conferences. Easy, … Continue reading
It’s not just Noirin
Recently, Noirin Plunkett Shirley wrote about being assaulted at ApacheCon. Noirin publicly called out her assaulter because quietly reporting the incident to authorities and conference leadership isn’t working. She and many other women, including me, are still being harassed and … Continue reading
Compiling lockstat with 2.6.x kernel
I wanted to use lockstat/lockmeter on a 2.6.16 kernel, but the lockstat userland tool wouldn’t compile. I googled fruitlessly for a while and found a few posts from people with the same problem, but never any replies, which always means … Continue reading
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Tagged bugs, linux
