Dinner by the fire
Last night we had “going away” dinner at Arabian Breeze because my friend Deepak is leaving Montavista Linux. Deepak isn’t actually moving away from Portland. He’ll be working from home and...
View ArticleMy Zora List
My friend Maria (@ubergeeke) once mentioned reading about someone’s Zora list. Without further ado, here is my Zora list: - Eat 70% of my food from my garden for one summer. Yes, that’s a big garden. -...
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Preventing Violence Against Women
This week, Facebook came under fire for not pulling several pages that promote violence against women. Pages like “Violently Raping Your Friend Just for Laughs” remained up, even after they were...
View ArticleNo more verbal abuse
I’m standing up against verbal abuse on LKML. I will happily stand alone, however you can also support this cause. Please speak up, either by resharing this post, or commenting on this post with...
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Summary on Civility
The LKML thread where I stood up against verbal abuse has been winding down. I’ve posted a summary of my position. As I noted, I have been listening and learning from the arguments on the thread. In...
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Donate to the Ada Initiative!
Want to support women in tech? Donate to the Ada Initiative! For the last two years, I’ve been going to the conferences the Ada Initiative has put on for women in open technology and culture. It’s a...
View ArticleThe Gentle Art of Patch Review
As the next round of the FOSS Outreach Program for Women (OPW) approaches, my mind turns to mentorship, and lessons learned when dealing with newcomers to open source projects. Many open source...
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I won Red Hat’s Women in Open Source Award!
At Red Hat Summit, I was presented with the first ever Women in Open Source Award. I’m really honored to be recognized for both my technical contributions, and my efforts to make open source...
View ArticleClosing a door
This post has been sitting in my drafts folder for a year now. It has never been the right time to post this. I have always been worried about the backlash. I’ve skirted around talking about this issue...
View ArticleWhat makes a good community?
*Pokes head in, sees comments are generally positive* There’s been a lot of discussion in my comment sections (and on LWN) about what makes a good community, along with suggestions of welcoming open...
View ArticleGraphics linkspam: Bugs, bugs, I’m covered in bugs!
Reporting bugs to Intel graphics developers (or any open source project) can be intimidating. You want the right developers to pay attention to your bug, so you need to provide enough information to...
View ArticleBuilding a custom Intel graphics stack
When I worked as a Linux kernel developer, I often ran across people who were very concerned about compiling and installing a custom kernel. They really didn’t like running the bleeding edge kernel in...
View ArticleMetrics of Haters
When I posted my Closing a Door post, I mentioned that a team of moderators would be filtering comments for me. Comments that did not meet my comment policy would not be approved. Moderators also found...
View ArticleCode of Conduct Warning Signs
I’ve got something on my chest that needs to be expressed. It’s likely to be a bit ranty, because I’ve got some scars around dealing with this issue. I want to talk about Codes of Conduct (CoCs). No...
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White Corporate Feminism
When I first went to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference, it was magical. Being a woman in tech means I’m often the only woman in a team of male engineers, and if there’s more...
View Article“I was only joking”
There was a very interesting set of tweets yesterday that dissected the social implications of saying, “I was only joking.” To paraphrase: To say humor is social act is to say it is always in social...
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Measuring the Impact of Negative Language on FOSS Participation (Part I)
A recent academic paper showed that there were clear differences in the communication styles of two of the top Linux kernel developers (“Differentiating Communication Styles of Leaders on the Linux...
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Impact of bots on github communities
I’ve been digging into contributor statistics for various communities on github as part of my work on FOSS Heartbeat, a project to measure the health of open source communities. It’s fascinating to see...
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Update on Sentiment Analysis of FOSS communities
One of my goals with my new open source project, FOSS Heartbeat, has been to measure the overall sentiment of communication in open source communities. Are the communities welcoming and friendly,...
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