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BSD Advocacy and Breaking Through Market Barriers, Melanie Groves VonFange
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| Firefox is the greatest example of open source success to date, and there are
| other projects who have made headway against proprietary applications. GIMP,
| is an open source alternative to Adobe's Photoshop. The GIMP graphic editor
| has a strong user base, flexible plugins, and community based documentation
| and tutorials. OpenOffice, sponsored in part by Sun Microsystems, has made
| some serious headway against its pricey proprietary counterpart, Microsoft
| Office. Ubuntu, a community developed, Linux-based operating system, has
| shown that open source operating systems are accessible to the average user.
| Ubuntu has helped to push the Linux market share to 1.06%, a record high. Use
| of the Windows operating system has declined to below 88% for the first time.
| The opportunity for other open source operating systems, such as the BSD
| family of operating systems, exists. The iron is hot and it is time to
| strike.
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http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/891/861
FLOSS Weekly 72: OpenSim
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| Hosts: Randal Schwartz, Jono Bacon, and Leo Laporte
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| OpenSimulator, the free and open source 3D application server program used to
| create virtual environments.
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http://twit.tv/floss72
Recent:
The Human Factor in Open Source, Cat Allman
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| Google uses, creates and supports open source software (OSS) both as the raw
| material of code, and as a development model. My work in the Open Source
| Programs Office (OSPO) at Google as one member of a three person Outreach
| team is almost entirely about the mechanics of building good relations
| between the F/LOSS community at large and Google. This article describes our
| day-to-day tasks which are variously focused on student programs, external
| communications, event management, and financial administration.
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http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/886/856
Are You A Contributor?: Women's Contributions to Linux & Open Source Span
Technology and Business, Amanda McPherson
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| While there are over 60 names on the list of women in open source on the Geek
| Feminism wiki, there are far more than 60 women making their mark in open
| source. I work with talented people every day in my role as Vice President of
| Marketing and Developer Programs at the Linux Foundation, and see first-hand
| the contributions women make at the technology and business levels.
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http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/884/854
Offline: Where Tech Communities Succeed With Women, Selena Deckelmann
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| Conferences are one way that women can be drawn into the free/libre and open
| source software (F/LOSS) ecosystem. Many different approaches are needed to
| increase women's participation in F/LOSS, but face-to-face interaction has
| proven to be a critical part of the way the technology community in Portland,
| Oregon has thrived. This article describes the successes of this community,
| and suggests how other communities could benefit from Portland's experience.
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http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/888/858
Where are the Alpha *Female* Hackers?
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| Not surprisingly, my first thought was: who have we got in the world of free
| software? There are certainly some big names like Mitchell Baker, Chief
| Lizard Wrangler of Mozilla and Stormy Peters, Executive Director of the GNOME
| Foundation
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/where-are-famous-female-hackers.html
Women of Tech: Hear Us Roar, A Special Series from www.oreillynet.com
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| The timely new series reveals the challenges, rewards, and, sometimes,
| frustrations of being a woman in an industry still dominated by men. "Each
| day, we'll present a different woman's story that I believe will open
| readers' eyes to her unique perspective," explains Apandi. "We have
| contributions from conference organizers, authors, programmers, developers,
| and more--women who have pioneered prosperous careers in technology."
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http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5213
Macho Geek Madness
http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/100
Related:
[Fwd: [Announce] 5th Linuxchix Brazil Conference]
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| Based on the encouragement and inclusion of women in the Free and Open
| Source Software movement, but united by the ideology, Linuxchix Brazil is
| a large and highly active chapter of Linuxchix.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/247814/
Linuxchix New Zealand set up
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| Women who like Linux now have a community organisation in New
| Zealand to support them: LinuxChix NZ.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7053
Linuxchix Australia Expands
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| An Australia-wide chapter of LinuxChix has formed, for women
| living in Australia who are interested in Linux and Free Software.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/81627/index.html
SCALE 5x: Women in Open Source
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| "It was excellent, but I came with, I suppose... a little bit of
| fear that nobody was going to show up. I've dabbled with the
| idea of having similar thing at a conference that I run called
| the Ohio Linux Fest," she told me. "I absolutely feel inspired by
| this. I wondered for quite some time as to how I made the shift --
| of being able to walk into this community and feel that I would
| be accepted rather than just sit down very shyly and figure that
| I wasn't going to be accepted. I do now feel like a welcomed
| member of this community."
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http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/300/
Portrait: LinuxChix Brazil's Sulamita Garcia
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| A lot of people have bemoaned the lack of women participating
| in open source communities, but Sulamita Garcia is one of the
| few who have stepped up to do something about it. A Slackware
| user from Florianopolis, Brazil, Garcia has been heading up
| LinuxChix Brazil for four years.
|
| Garcia has been involved with Linux and open source software
| since 1999, when she was at university finishing a computer
| science degree and was tasked with testing asynchronous transfer
| mode (ATM) cards in a Linux system.
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/07/1645205&tid=12
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