Fun to participate in a panel on open source that was 100% women and had absolutely nothing to do with being a woman in open source. I hope one day this will be so commonplace I don't even notice it.
“Women make up only 9.8% of the people who contribute to open-source software projects. . . . our research found that women’s negative experiences range from minor to severe harassment, sexism, discrimination and misogyny to explicit death threats. Their expertise is challenged, their contributions are not well-received and their roles are diminished.” - Vandana Singh
"My designs were so deceptively simple that it was easy for people to assume I just had easy problems, whereas others, who made super-complicated designs (that were technically unsound and never worked) and were able to talk about them in ways that nobody understood, were considered geniuses." -- Radia Perlman, the woman who developed the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol, an innovation that made today's Internet possible.
Happy international women’s day! Thank you for all #WomenInTech and #PyLadies I know. Thank you for your friendship, your support and the community that we built together. Let’s us celebrate our work, our success and our achievements. Love you all ❤️
At OpenProject, we stand up for #equality and #diversity and are very fortunate to have great women who help us move forward – the picture below shows only a few of them. We know that this is not at all granted everywhere in the world.
And as a technical company, we particularly value #womenintech.
International Women's Day is over tomorrow. The commitment to equality continues.
Why can't just one single good work thing happen to me without a guy finding it necessary to remind me that my purpose in life is to be fucked by men, and that I'm not even good enough for that?
Like... just why?
Something positive happened and now I feel like shit.
What suggestions does Nuria Oliver, co-founder and Scientific Director of ELLIS - European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems , have for addressing gender imbalance in #computing?
To celebrate this year’s #WomensHistoryMonth, ACM has teamed up with "The Machine," a Computer Science education #podcast discussing technology, to highlight the journey and accomplishment of #WomenInTech.
Not that many topics of interest, unfortunately. 😅 And in what seems to be quite characteristic of FOSS in general, very few #WomenInTech involved as speakers.
Anubha Maneshwar's talk looks really interesting, but it might not work for my schedule. The accessibility talk by Nancy Reyes Flores and Raashi Saxena seems interesting too. Aparna Sundar's could also be worth it. Cool to see that the CEOs of @nextcloud and @penpot will be speaking, on top of that.
Some say the event’s co-organizer, Julia Krisina, is also a fake. “She posts the same content he does with a time delay. He is catfishing, using her image, as she is his female mouthpiece,” says Fong-Jones. “There are screenshots of him being logged into two accounts as well as Julia’s account.”
Fake female speakers represent more than just ethical violations. “This is all so incredibly damaging to women working in technology,”
"You're not technical enough" is often said to women. In the Tech Leading Ladies blog, Michelle Gleeson unpacks the reasons for this and suggests how to push back on it. #WomenInTech#technology
Did Diana Pham and I stay on topic during this week’s episode of @geekingout_pod? Um…sort of? But it doesn’t matter, because we had a total blast, talking about beauty pageants, capybaras, and balut. You may also hear Tim Banks in the background, and if you watch the video version, you can see @hazelweakly and my daughter Hannah make guest appearances in their totally matchy-matchy green outfits.
Du studierst Informatik oder ein verwandtes Fach? Du bist Studentin in Berlin und Umgebung (Potsdam, Wildau...)? Du möchtest Dich mit anderen MINT-Studentinnen und mit Studentinnen, die bei FOKUS arbeiten sowie mit Wissenschaftlerinnen aus unserem Institut vernetzen?
Wir freuen uns ganz besonders, dass bei unserem nächsten Treffen im November Dr. Martina Niemann, Vorstand Finanzen/Controlling und Vorstand Angebotsmanagement von DB Cargo, vor Ort dabei sein wird. Sie kann Eure Karrierefragen basierend auf über 25 Jahren Führungserfahrung beantworten.
The decisive influence of women on the development of #LispMachine processors and #Scheme in general is criminally under-discussed:
"We had heard that Lynn Conway from Xerox and Carver Mead from Caltech were making real progress on making it possible for people who were not at a chip-fab facility to specify chips for experimental designs. In the Spring of '78 we invited Lynn Conway to teach the class on #VLSI design that she was working on with Carver Mead. Just a few years earlier Guy L. Steele Jr., (then my graduate student) and I invented a simplified but elegant version of the #LISP family of languages that we called Scheme. Guy and I wrote a number of internal memos (Lambda the Ultimate...) that later became famous. Guy enrolled in Lynn's class. For his term project he designed and fabricated a direct interpreter for Scheme, called Scheme-78. It didn't quite work (because of three missing wires); it didn't have a garbage collector; and it was too small to do anything impressive; but it encouraged us to try again. Over the next few months Guy Steele, Jack Holloway, and I designed a new interpreter that we thought could actually be run on a real memory and tested with real programs. I designed the register array, Guy and I developed the microcode. Jack made a PLA generator that could hold the microcode, and we roped Alan Bell of #XeroxPARC into assembling the Scheme-79 Chip. We pulled this off in a few man-months of time and it worked! Scheme-79 had a mark-sweep #GarbageCollector with a Deutsch-Schorr-Waite mark algorithm and a two-finger compacting sweep. It also had a two-level microcode: The main PLA contained rather high-level microcode instructions that were further elaborated by a nanocode PLA that operated the register array.
Further encouraged, I started a new project to make a chip that was actually big enough and fast enough to be useful to run real research programs. This was the Scheme-81 chip. It was a 32-bit machine, with 6 bits of type code and 26 bits of address. It had microcode support for everything required to make a Scheme computer operating system, including a stop-and-copy garbage collector, a coprocessor bus, and an interrupt system. For Scheme-81 the microcode was written by Richard Stallman, Chris Hanson, and me. (Steele had graduated and moved on to CMU as faculty.)"
👧🏽 🧠 Starke Girls' Power am "Girls'Day - Mädchen-Zukunftstag": Codet mit uns die Zukunft 👩🏻
🆒 Ein Tag als Nachwuchs-Informatikerin: Was heißt es eigentlich, "Irgendwas mit Computern" zu machen? 👩🏻💻 Am #GirlsDay haben bei uns im Haus 13 Schülerinnen einen Einblick in die Welt des Codings und der Informatik erhalten.
👏🏻 Das war ein großartiger Tag! Es hat uns unglaublich viel Spaß gemacht und vielleicht sehen wir das ein oder andere Mädchen bald wieder als Schüler-Praktikantin bei uns im Institut. 🤗
"One of the lads – Things I’m tired of hearing about #womenintech". Talk by Sophie Küster at the @fsfe women group meeting on April 22, 20:00 CEST. BBB room: https://conf.fsfe.org/b/women