Tag Archives: sexism

The Sad State of Vancouver’s Entrepreneur of the Year Awards

Last week I noticed Business in BC published its Entrepreneurs of the Year Awards list. The list is filled with deserving and excellent candidates as well as inspiring stories of businesses that are thriving and innovating in a difficult business environment. The recipients are worthy of praise as many embrace values and determination that any [...]

Women in Open Source and Florida’s Bohemian Index

Just a quick somewhat brief follow up to yesterday’s post on women in open source.
I got lots of great feedback and comments for which I’m grateful and wanted to say one or two things.
First, I recognize the title to the post, particularly the “Canary in a Coal Mine” was far from perfect. The exclusion of [...]

Women in Open Source – the canary in the coal mine

The other month I had the pleasure watching Angie Byron give the keynote lecture at Open Web Vancouver on Women in Open Source. The synopsis from Open Web Vancouver:
The open source world is rich with opportunities: Working with people of all cultures from all over the world; Collaborating with some of the biggest and brightest [...]

I’ve never seen a political speech like this

I was going to post about the Quadra byelection today (I’d even written something so will post tomorrow) but yesterday afternoon I started getting emails from friends in the US asking me if I’d seen “the speech.” I’d locked myself away for much of the day and was trying to avoid the great distraction that [...]

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