Deb Richardson wrote:
>
> Naomi Hospodarsky wrote:
>
> > I've only been meandering
> > around the Linux community seriously for about 8-12 months now....anyone
> > out there have someone in mind that should make the list?
>
> To be honest, this is one of the (many) things that prompted me to start
> LinuxChix in the first place. I was just sitting around thinking one
> day (as is my wont), and I tried to think of women who were associated
> with Linux and Open Source. I came up with a couple of names (Tove and
> Telsa), but was otherwise stumped. So I asked a couple of other people
> who they could come up with, and if they could think of any, it was
> either or both of the two I came up with.
>
> I thought to myself at that point, "well that can't be right", and
> started LinuxChix as a way to poke some other women out of the
> proverbial ("virtual" if you will) woodwork.
>
> Ta dah! There are a couple of hundred of us on the lists now, and some
> are beginning to make names for themselves in the community. Kara
> Pritchard, for example, has had her RHCE "Exam Cram" book published
> (which has nothing to do with LinuxChix, of course, but she is out there
> working 'for the cause' as it were). Kara also works on the User Group
> section of linux.com.
>
> Kira and Rachie have started the Linuxgrrls.org website/portal,
Rather starved for stories I'm afraid, mainly due to our being busy with
personal stuff lately.
> and I
> know that kira has done some development work (to what extent, I'm
> unsure).
She ported Linux to run on the AMD SC410 architecture, and is in charge of
that port. She's also putting together a distribution for said SC410 boards
her employer makes (though it should be a useful tiny distro in its own
right). It's all embedded-stuff. Very little RAM, no HD, that sort of thing.
Apparently the JPL are among the people currently trying it out. She's
having to fork the 2.2 tree at the moment to do it, but intends to get it
all merged back into 2.4 which has the structural changes she needs.
Anyway, although Andrea was as it turns out a mis-read there *are* several
women on the kernel team, though I can't name any of them offhand right now.
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Rachel
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