(Some more meanderings on the brouhaha about diversity in the Python world.)
First, I've removed 'python' from the tags and made sure that neither Planet Python nor Advogato feed from this blog otherwise; I suspect by talking about politics and feelings in OSS I'm getting further from my normal target …
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Since a few people have asked, here's a rough guide to the diversity discussion. No specifics allowed.
1. diversity list created to (among other things) ponder an official diversity statement for Python. List is closed-archive but open for general subscription.
2. Various diversity list discussions become heated. Some people (including …
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Sarah Mei posts about teaching Ruby to high school girls. Good stuff.
While searching for some GHOP info from way back, I ran across this post asking "where are the girls among the GHOP winners?" (The statistics mentioned in the post may have been posted since, although I haven't seen …
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Open source coding is like a not-so-demanding mistress: I work on it at night, surreptitiously, after my wife and daughter are asleep. twill and figleaf are like bastard children, who only get attention when I can spare it from my "real" family (my teaching, research or my actual family, depending …
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i asked two other friends of mine, [ ... ], for recommendations about model code and about their work environment. their feedback was extremely helpful and i thought you'd be interested to hear the opinions of other good programmers. i would also love to hear your thoughts on these (extracted and scattered) comments …
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