Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the
software freedom community and technology generally.


Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:38)


Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the
software freedom community and technology generally.

Bradley wrote
a blog post a while back noting that issues of gender inequality
are technology-sector-wide, as shown on
PDF page 10 of this study. However, Bradley incorrectly remembered
the study: in fact, all levels of academic computer science are (23:19)

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)

Bradley believes that Stand and
Deliver. (29:37)

Bradley is sure there is no Calculus in Good Will
Hunting (30:08)

Bradley mentioned that S05E11
of American Greed contained an rsync output on a
Debian system and Python DBUS binding C code as “code cracking
examples” (31:00)

Miguel de
Icaza had a cameo in the file Antitrust.
(33:27)

Bradley mentioned that Craig Mundie keynoted
OSCON (38:55)

Bradley mentioned the USENIX/Freenix to Perl Conference to OSCON
history (42:50)

Karen mentioned the GNOME
Marketing Meeting at FOSDEM
2012. (43:27)

Karen is speaking at
Linux Conf Australia on 19 January 2012,Bradley
is
speaking
at Scale 10x, the 2012
Southern California Linux Expo (44:16)





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