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Jacob Kaplan-Moss makes $5000 matching donation challenge to the Python and Django community 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Jacob Kaplan-Moss CC BY-SA Aidas Bendoraitis Jacob Kaplan-Moss, a co-creator of the open source Django web framework, challenges the Python community to donate $5000 to support women in free and open...
We’ve raised almost $70,000 for women in open tech/culture, help us raise $30,000 more! 27 Aug 2013 | 08:02 am
CC-BY-SA Adam Novak We’re doing it – with your help, we’ve raised almost $70,000 towards our goal of $100,000 to support women in open technology and culture! We’ve already made big strides for women...
Deleting Ada Lovelace from the history of computing 25 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am
This is a repost of our Ada Lovelace Day 2012 article on the attempts to delete Countess Ada Lovelace from the history of computing, with minor updates and an announcement of the first Ada Lovelace co...
Galois makes $1000 matching donation challenge to support women in open source 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
If you missed out on our last matching donation challenge, we have good news: Portland-based research and development company Galois stepped up with another matching donation! Galois turns cutting ed...
Conference anti-harassment campaigns do work: Three existence proofs from SF&F, atheism/skepticism, and open source 23 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
[Trigger warning for sexual harassment and assault] Sometimes fighting harassment and assault at conferences feels like a losing battle. For every step forward, it seems like there’s another step bac...
Cross-post: My Family And The Ada Initiative, by Sumana Harihareswara 22 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
CC-BY Guillaume Paumier This is a cross-post from Sumana Harihareswara’s blog, Cogito, Ergo Sumana. She is Engineering Community Manager at Wikimedia Foundation, a long-time member of the GNOME commu...
Leigh Honeywell makes $2,000 matching donation challenge in honor of Janet Leys Shaw Mactavish 22 Aug 2013 | 04:06 am
Thank you to our 2013 donors (listed by permission): @KathleenLD Adam C. Foltzer Alan Coopersmith Alex Gaynor Alex Payne Amanda Skellenger Amber June Blahnik Amelia Greenhall Amy Hendrix Ann...
$10,000 matching donation challenge from Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson to support the Ada Initiative’s work 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Sumana Harihareswara (CC-BY Guillaume Paumier) Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson challenge the science fiction & fantasy, Wikipedia, and open source communities to take action to support wo...
First matching donation challenge: $500 from PalominoDB 20 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am
Our first matching donation challenge comes from a woman-led open source services company! PalominoDB provides ongoing operational support and professional services around MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cassa...
Puppet Labs is giving away 5 free tickets to PuppetConf for women in IT/ops/sysadmin, applications close 9am August 20th PDT 19 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Long-time Ada Initiative sponsor Puppet Labs is offering 5 free tickets to PuppetConf to women in systems administration, operations, or IT roles. PuppetConf focuses on automating systems administrati...
