Quick Hit: FSF Women’s Caucus internship opportunity

The Free Software Foundation is looking for an [unpaid] intern:

The Women’s Caucus is seeking an intern to assist with its work to increase the number of women involved in free software.

Caucus projects include: providing resources for projects and organizations wishing to improve their recruitment and retention of women, raising the profile of women who are currently participating in the promotion, improvement or development of free software, and bringing free software to girls and young women. We’re especially interested in candidates with good writing skills, a strong commitment to free software, and a genuine desire to see an increased number of women involved in the free software movement.

More information here.

It’s not a gender issue, it’s a linkspam issue (25th March, 2010)

• Clara Raubertas has a wrap-up of the women-in-Free-Software focussed talks and events at the Free Software Foundation’s LibrePlanet 2010.
• Richie is highly critical of an look-a-unicorn-in-wargaming entry at Bell of Lost Souls and goes on to be horrified at gamers patting themselves on the back for ignoring racism
• Revenge of the Nerds: Fighting Sexism at Tech Events: imperfect (blames women for SXSWi being less technical? wtf?) but interesting article by Wendy Norris nonetheless
• Culture and children remain biggest barriers to women in tech: *HEADDESK*. Chris O’Brien, one-time stay-at-home father, is reminded that it’s so often mothers that have to plan and shuttle around children.
• Erin Robinson is over being asked about women in game development
• Women, Stop Saying You Hate Math: A good post and interesting comment thread on gender and math!
• Bias Called Persistent Hurdle for Women in Sciences: Teaching girls about how stereotypes affect performance, the report found, can diminish such effects.
• Rosalie Marshall wants to combat misconceptions of tech careers, in order to stop the fall in European women choosing them
• Know it All programmable felted bag: Knitty Spring+Summer 2010: Awesomely nerdy, maker-y bag made of felting and and Arduino Lilypad to create a row counter system IN THE BAG

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How Very Unlike the Linkspam of Our Own Dear Queen (23rd March, 2010)

• Sexism at Work: Young Women, NEWSWEEK and Gender: NEWSWEEK was the subject of a gender-discrimination case in 1970. Young women currently working at NEWSWEEK reflect on the case and the current state of the battle.
• Why ask for an unskilled, not-yet-involved comaintainer?: Christine Spang explores the difference between saying she's be willing to mentor someone inexperienced in Debian packaging, and saying she'd prefer to mentor someone inexperienced.
• The sorority of the Ring: Cath Elliott explores what Tolkien’s works have to offer women fans.
• New Research from ABI Highlights the Characteristics That Lead to Advancement of Technical Women: “A new research report released today by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology (ABI) sheds light on the attributes of senior level technical women”
• Notes from the LibrePlanet Women’s Caucus: A point-by-point summary of the FSF Women's Caucus.
• Glamour Slam!: In response to the suvudu cagematch which had not enough women, this LiveJournal community is doing the same, but with all female characters.
• Why SXSW Sucks: Jolie O'Dell reports numerous problems with the SXSWi conference, including harassment and assault of women.
• Women of Color and Wealth — Starting Points and Class Jumping [Part 3]: “Many people think, and I might have been guilty of it, that we need $25,000 per year per student and that’s what it takes to get through college. But really it’s very often $50 problems that knock them out: a car breakdown, a dental bill, a changing shift in their job. So really helping these students, as a policy matter, is a lot cheaper than people think.”
• You Win When They Call You a Bitch: Cinnamon Cooper has a presentation up with slides. “So when you’re called a bitch, instead of letting the argument get derailed, recognize that you’ve outsmarted them. Reply with ‘I win! You aren’t smart enough to continue the conversation, so thanks for ending it.'”

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Ceci n’est pas une linkspam (4th October, 2009)

• The do’s and don’ts of being a good ally
• Ring around Saturn: Jennifer Ouellette at Twisted Physics profiles astrophysicist Carolyn Porco and her work on the Cassini probe
• Liana Leahy asks SRSLY? at claims of reverse sexism in regard to the women’s Rails workshops she’s organising
• Peggy at Women in Science writes about women who might be in line for a Nobel prize
• Embrace Your Inner Hacker Girls in Tech guest poster Sara Czyzewicz, on building stuff with microcontrollers at MakerFaire RI
• Desiree Michael writes on ways to fight the Gender Divide Who Said It Would Be Easy?, on Girls in Tech
• Bruce Byfield has a belated report on the mini-summit on women in free software
• Apparently, Women Rule the Social Web but not Digg. Or wikipedia

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Link roundup, 2nd Impact (August 27th, 2009)

• The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on women in Free Software on September 19. Seth Schoen notes that “I guess the venue and timing could be a challenge for some people (it doesn’t seem to be colocated with, or right before or after, anything else in particular)”. See LWN for some discussion, some much of it probably will cost you some sanity points.
• OMG! Girlz Don’t Need Games or Features! — A review of the new Lilac PSP demonstrates that Sony, like many companies before, could use some lessons on how to market games and gaming systems to women.
• Anna Filina offers her take on women in IT saying (among other things) that she hates working with women. Um?
• Late business at the Hugo Awards in which Yonmei proposes a small modification to the nomination procedures for the Hugos to help redress the gender imbalance. Result: “There was certainly considerable SMOFFISH outrage at the idea that there could be anything imperfect or biased about the Hugo nomination system which might need to be remedied.” Links to LJ discussions at the bottom of the post.
• ROSE blog interviews Erica Brescia (BitRock), Angela Brown (Linux Foundation), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), and Dru Lavigne (BSD).
• Another round of technology and gender images at Sociological Images, including a woman tied to a bed as an inducement to buy Gameboy consoles.
• Melissa McEwan (via M. LeBlanc) on how puzzled privileged people get when they have fun intellectual devil’s-advocate conversations about our oppression and we get personal about it.
• The GNOME development community is planning an outreach program for women similar to the 2006 outreach program. They are looking at funding women developers to work on GNOME Shell.