women in technology

GHC09: Becoming a Person of Influence

November 30, 2009

Still trying to catch up with my notes from the talks I attended at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in October… Jo Miller was a very popular presenter at GHC08, so was invited back this year to speak on Becoming a Person of Influence. Jo, an Aussie with a somewhat confused accent [...]

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GHC09: Women in the Flat Connected World

October 25, 2009

“Globalization has forced companies to create new processes to empower distributed teams to collaborate. It could mean that individuals have to travel for longer periods of time across the globe, work at odd hours, and work from home or make other adjustments to accommodate a new working lifestyle. Panelists will discuss and give their perspective [...]

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Open Source Community Development Panel #ghc09

October 2, 2009

^ Valerie Fenwick, Sun, moderator. Panelists: Terri Oda, Linuxchix. Kathryn Vandiver, NetApp. Stormy Peters, GNOME, Sandy Payette, Fedora Commons. Teresa Giacomini, Sun. (These are just my rough notes.) ? to Sandy what activities and attitudes have helped your community flourish? Teresa on diff tactics to grow communities in different parts of the world: In our [...]

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Reflections on My Career Strengths

August 5, 2009

As someone who may be seeking a new job soon [this was written in August, 2009], it behooves me to prepare myself for a possible job search. Which is something I’m really, really bad at. I’m very good at doing jobs once I get them, but clueless and inept when it comes to seeking them. [...]

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Who’s a Guy?

July 30, 2009

One session I (and many others) attended at the Community Leadership Summit was on women in technology/communities. Frankly, I lost patience very quickly. As I said then, we all have horror stories; I’m more interested in discussing fixes. (Which, with Sara Ford to get the ball rolling, we did.) One meme that came up repeatedly [...]

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The First Colorado Front Range Girl Geek Dinner: Jai Ho!

March 7, 2009

The first Colorado Front Range Girl Geek Dinner was held on Thursday, March 5th, on Sun’s Broomfield campus. More than 80 people attended, only one of whom was (a very brave) male. Sun sponsored this first one with food, drink, and venue. There was plenty of interest from other individuals and businesses in helping with [...]

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Web Women Weekend

October 28, 2007

^ the finer points of CSS – Tara and Elena in my kitchen Increasingly frustrated with the low visibility of women in technology in Italy, back in June I and a few like-minded ladies hatched a plan to start doing something about it. The first step was to get together. So I invited them all [...]

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Pandecena Milano June ’07 – In Which a Cunning Plot is Hatched

June 19, 2007

Famed Italian blogger Luca Conti (pictured above at right, showing off his Nokia to Sara Piperita) has pulled off what many bloggers dream of (and quite a few actually do, in other parts of the world): making a living by blogging. Or, at least, managing to get paid for various kinds of consulting (as a [...]

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FemCamp Bologna 2007: Sessions & Reflections

May 29, 2007

In the afternoon I attended some sessions, though I missed the most popular presentation of the day, Iocelopiulunghismo (“Mine’s-the-biggest-ism”), by Elena and Feba, a funny and ironic look at (male) bloggers’ obsession with their (blog) statistics. I poked my head into Andrea Beggi‘s unfortunately-titled presentation on “Blogging for Ladies,” but the room was so crowded [...]

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FemCamp Bologna 2007

May 28, 2007

Saturday morning I got up bright and early – way too early, considering that I had barely slept Friday night (jet lag – I had just returned from Colorado Thursday). Succumbing to travel paranoia, I took a taxi down the hill rather than wait for the first bus at 7 am, and got to Lecco [...]

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barCamp Roma: January, 2007

January 30, 2007

The full gallery of photos from my attendance at barCamp in Rome.

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The Infamous Miniskirt Photo: Give the Customers What They Want!

September 16, 2001

First, the picture, which first appeared on the Adaptec website in April, 1998: Over the years some of my colleagues griped that having a picture like this on a corporate website was “unprofessional,” and I suppose it was. But (a) why does “corporate” have to mean “boring”? and (b) there’s a story behind it. It [...]

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