Some Thoughts on Women and Computing
About a week ago I went to a talk by Maria Klawe, the current president of Harvey Mudd College, on Women and Computing. This made me wish I’d been listening to Lugradio years ago so that I could have...
View ArticleStarting Over
It’s been ages since I even really looked at this place, but it’s time for me to start over and get going with it again. In the past 18 months or so I’ve graduated college, moved, started a job in...
View ArticleRemote Participation UDS Lucid Lynx
Obviously as I’m very new to being involved in the Ubuntu community, I didn’t go to Dallas for UDS Lucid Lynx earlier this month, however, I did decide to do as much remote participation as I could. I...
View ArticleAda Lovelace Day 2010
I’ve spent the day trying to figure out what to write for Ada Lovelace Day and, while I’m not much further from where I started, it’s getting to the end of the day so I figured it was time to just...
View ArticleReviving the Ubuntu Accessibility Team
The Ubuntu Accessibility Team will meet April 13, 2010 at 21:00 UTC in #ubuntu-accessibility on freenode. This is the first time in over 3 years that the team has met. While there’s still a strong...
View ArticleBlogging Against Disablism Day 2010: Accessibility & Ubuntu
Today is Blogging Against Disablism Day and I urge everyone (especially if you’ve never heard of it before) to check out the blogs posts being written. I never planned on getting involved with...
View ArticleUDS-M: Travel & Day 1
About a month ago I was informed that I had been given sponsorship by Canonical to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Maverick in La Hulpe, Belgium (outside Brussels). The following weeks were busy...
View ArticleUbuntu Accessibility Team Goals for Maverick Meerkat
The Ubuntu Accessibility Team met at UDS to discuss the plans for the team both in terms of structure and actions for the Maverick Meerkat cycle. It was decided that Luke Yelavich will lead the...
View ArticleUbuntu Accessibility Team Personas Survey
One of the goals identified for the Ubuntu Accessibility Team for this cycle is to create personas that can be used by designers and developers to get them thinking about accessibility. Personas are...
View ArticleUDS Diversity – Accessibility/Disability Version Meeting TODAY
One thing that’s been discussed recently quite a bit in the Ubuntu community is fostering a diverse UDS. There is the newly proposed Diversity Statement and Anti-Harrassment Statement, and as part of...
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