Jun 20, 2008 8:20pm GMT
Systers recently announced the 2008 Anita Borg Systers Pass It On Grant recipients on their website. Applications are now being accepted for the next round of recipients. According to their site: The Anita Borg Systers Pass-It-On Grants honor Anita Borg’s desire to create a network of technical women helping one another. The grants, funded by donations from the Systers Online Community, ar... more »
LugRadio Live UK 2008Jun 20, 2008 3:34pm GMT
LugRadio Live UK is next month. I made it to the LugRadio Live USA event and give it two enthusiastic thumbs up. In fact, I'd give it more thumbs up, if I had more thumbs. Here's info on the upcoming UK event: LugRadio Live UK 2008 The Lighthouse Media Center, Fryer St., Wolverhampton, WV1 1HTLugRadio Live UK 2008 takes place in Wolverhampton on July 19th and 20th and features three... more »
Juliet Kemp takes openSUSE 11.0 for a spinJun 19, 2008 3:29pm GMT
Juliet Kemp wrote a review of openSUSE 11.0 for our August issue, which hits US newsstands in mid-July. If you can't stand the wait, read it now online. more »
Scholarships for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing ConferenceJun 18, 2008 3:57pm GMT
Google is sponsoring more than 50 scholarships for women to attend this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. The deadline to submit an application is June 22, so don't procrastinate. more »
Mozilla's Window SnyderJun 18, 2008 3:48pm GMT
The USA Today site posted an interesting article, called "'Geek Girl' helps keep Mozilla safe in scary times," about Window Snyder, Mozilla's 'chief security something-or-other'. I see a lot about women in technology needing more mentors, so I was happy to see that Window's dear ol' mom taught her to program Basic when she was only five. more »
Jean Bartik enters the Computer History Museum's "Hall of Fellows"Jun 18, 2008 3:01pm GMT
Today, maddog blogged that Linus Torvalds and Bob Metcalfe will be inducted into the Computer History Museum's Hall of Fellows this October. The museum, located in Mountain View, California, has an impressive list of exhibits, including a collection of computer marketing brochures, early computers and vintage PCs, and the Babbage Engine. Maddog sent me some exciting news for women in comp... more »
News from our neighborhood: Django Software FoundationJun 17, 2008 5:19pm GMT
Our magazine offices are only about a block away from the Lawrence Journal-World and The World Company headquarters in Lawrence, Kansas. This morning, as I sipped my coffee and scanned the local paper's website, I noticed an article about the Django Software Foundation. The Django homepage describes it as "... a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and cle... more »
