- Rikki Kite interviews Juliet Kemp and Ellen Siever (both authors of Linux books)
- ¡Bienvenidos a la Boca del Infierno! — where are the Latino/as in Buffy? Also, check out the new blog SciFi Latino for some other writing on the subject.
- A PyCon program committee volunteer reflects: Catherine Devlin on her experience reviewing, accepting, and regretfully rejecting talks for the upcoming Python conference.
- The women behind the FSF’s Women in Free Software summit have created a mailing list to encourage women speakers at free software events.
- Computer Weekly’s WITsend blog has an article, Calling all men who tech — time to speak out for female colleagues.
- The New York Times Interactive team have hired their first female developer, Jacqui Maher. The Observer reports on it (slightly skeezily).
- Amazon CTO Werner Vogels shows a gratuitous sexy lady slide in his keynote at LISA ’09. Beable reports: He didn’t remember why the slide was there, but “hey, she was hot”. Werner quickly apologises, saying “I fully support the statements you made that this is not acceptable.” Quickest, least painful conference incident ever!
- Some gaming-related posts of note: F.A.G.S (and Cole Hamel!) says random grenades are for pussies, and from the Iris Network, Mixed reactions: even progress comes with sexist dynamics.
- An interesting post on the proportion of women scientists at NASA (less than 10%, it turns out.)
- Michelle Khine of UC Merced couldn’t afford the specialized equipment used to make microfluidic chips so she made her own out of Shrinky Dinks.
- Two logs from Ubuntu Open Week’s open sessions: Women in Open Source: Issues and Women in Open Source: Encouragement. The latter is moderated by our own Mackenzie “Maco” Morgan, and GF is mentioned in both.
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