hypatia dot ca » AdaLovelaceDay09 http://hypatia.ca Leigh Honeywell's Blog Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:28:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 My posse of heroines http://hypatia.ca/2009/03/my-posse-of-heroines/ http://hypatia.ca/2009/03/my-posse-of-heroines/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:20:30 +0000 Leigh Honeywell http://hypatia.ca/?p=107 I’m going to buck the trend and not name names on my post for Ada Lovelace Day 2009.  Instead I want to salute the women of the Ubuntu Women project for making participating in Ubuntu and in Open Source software in general just a little more supportive, friendly, and welcoming.  Unless one comes into our spaces to troll or harass, in which case the banhammers are swiftly dealt :)

Over the years (and it’s been years now!) I’ve hung out in #ubuntu-women on freenode, participated in the mailing list, and run into U-W participants at conferences around the world.  Through this, I’ve gained an invaluable support network, a place to vent to my peers, a great group of male allies (by which I mean guys who support the U-W project), and a bunch of fantastic friends.

Ada Lovelace Day is all about role models, and I couldn’t ask for a better bunch of women to look up to than the ones I hang out with every day in #ubuntu-women.  Thanks for all the great conversations, and let’s keep working hard on bug number 1!

I would be remiss to not mention my friend Behdad Esfahbod’s post for ALD, because he picked me to write about.  I’m delighted and honoured that he wrote about me. ETA: looks like Joey DeVilla and Karen Fung did too!

-Leigh

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