Episode 0x20: Gender Inequality in Software Freedom Community

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x20_Gender-Inequality.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x20_Gender-Inequality.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p>Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the software freedom community and technology generally.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:38)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the software freedom community and technology generally.</li> <li>Bradley <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/17/education-floss.html">wrote a blog post</a> a while back noting that issues of gender inequality are technology-sector-wide, <a href="http://archive.cra.org/statistics/survey/0708.pdf">as shown on PDF page 10 of this study</a>. However, Bradley incorrectly remembered the study: in fact, all levels of academic computer science are (23:19)</p> <li>Karen got a 5 on our Calculus AB exam, even though her teacher told her only boys were good at math. Bradley also got a 5 on the Calculus AB exam. (27:06)</li> <li>Bradley believes that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_and_Deliver"><cite>Stand and Deliver</cite></a>. (29:37)</li> <li>Bradley is sure there is no Calculus in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Will_Hunting"><cite>Good Will Hunting</cite></a> (30:08)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Greed_episodes">S05E11 of <cite>American Greed</cite></a> contained an rsync output on a Debian system and Python DBUS binding C code as &ldquo;code cracking examples&rdquo; (31:00)</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza">Miguel de Icaza</a> had a cameo in the file <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_(film)"><cite>Antitrust</cite></a>. (33:27)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Mundie">Craig Mundie</a> <a href="http://slashdot.org/story/01/07/26/1823233/mundie-speech--oscon---blogged-in-real-time">keynoted OSCON</a> (38:55)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the USENIX/Freenix to Perl Conference to OSCON history (42:50)</li> <li>Karen mentioned the <a href="http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/News/ContentPlanning/FOSDEM">GNOME Marketing Meeting</a> at <a href="http://fosdem.org/2012/">FOSDEM 2012</a>. (43:27)</li> <li>Karen is <a href="http://linux.conf.au/media/news/51">speaking at Linux Conf Australia on 19 January 2012</a>,<a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x/speakers/Bradley/Kuhn">Bradley</a> is <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x/presentations/12-years-floss-license-compliance-historical-perspective">speaking</a> at <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x">Scale 10x, the 2012 Southern California Linux Expo</a> (44:16)</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>