The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology has announced the release of a new study related to Women in Technology professions: Obstacles and Solutions for Underrepresented Minorities in Technology. It is a study about the barriers and obstacles of women's advancement in high-technology professions. Author: Caroline Simard, Ph.D., is Director of Research and Executive Programs at the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

Gender and ethnic diversity are very important. Ultimately we can only do well if we have the best ideas in place. If everybody thinks the same way, you’re not going to get the best ideas — you’re going to get the same ideas.

• Obstacles and Solutions for Underrepresented Minorities in Technology
• Climbing the Technical Ladder: Obstacles and Solutions for Mid-Level Women in Technology
• Climbing the Technical Ladder: Obstacles and Solutions for Mid-Level Women in Technology Executive Summary

Source : Anita Borg Institute

If it would be just writing an thesis, it would be too easy. Just in a week time at the country, I managed to write a whole chapter, and read about 600 pages (with notes). And then, I will need about 3 weeks off in order to write a paper for the JoCI, and to make a presentation at a colleague, who is doing for the first time a course in "Computer science and society" at the Technical University. I will need to prepare for a 5 weeks missing from home, a wrap-up for my thesis for the end of August....

Un article très bien explicant le concept du libre (en français) est écrit par Hervé Le Crosnier. Intitulé «Leçons d'émancipation : l'exemple du mouvement des logiciels libres», il décrit très bien la nature du mouvement, la nécessité d'avoir le code source à disponibilité par tous, etc.

Ce que j'ai aimé le plus, était le début, quant il a parlé des rapport du mouvement vers lui-même. Comme une chercheure dont le sujet touche aux logiciels libres, et comme une libriste qui participe au mouvement à base quotidienne, je suis defois d'accord qu'on fait des découvertes et de l'innovation à chaque pas, mais qu'on ne les considère pas comme tels. Ni on se mêle dans d'autres domaines...

I am about to complete my second chapter of my master's thesis, which covers the context of women's participation in Free and Open Source Software development projects. It is an introduction chapter, which will collect viewpoints from authors who have already written on this topic. My suggestions on how to approach the issue will come at the very end of this part, and also from then on, all the rest of the thesis.

So, for this time, I have made a considerable bibliographic list of articles of researchers and activists under FOSS and Women keywords. Here are some of the most interesting ones:

L’action communautaire québécoise à l’ère du numérique, c’est un ouvrage récent (2008, 252 pages, D1536, ISBN 978-2-7605-1536-9, PUQ) qui vise à reunir l’expérience des différents chercheurs et chercheuses du Laboratoire de communication médiatisée par ordinateur (labCMO), dans lequel j’ai la chance de participer. L’ouvrage a été publié sous la direction de Serge Proulx, Stéphane Couture et Julien Rueff par les Presses de l’Université du Québec (PUQ)

I am proud to announce my latest article Feminist Media Coverage of the Social Forums that got published in the Gender and Development magazine vol.15, No.3, November 2007 by Oxfam GB. To access the full text of the publication, please visit Feminist media coverage of the Social Forum. Visit the Gender & Development Magazine to find more and interesting articles related to women and media.

A Social Geek Conference. Media: Linux Magazine, Issue 112, March 2009, Europe (PDF).

The World of Peer Production in open source. Media: Linux Magazine, Issue 103, June 2009, Europe (PDF).

Feminist Tech Exchange. Media: Linux Magazine, Issue 99, February 2009, Europe (PDF).

Software freedom celebrations in Québec. Media: Linux Magazine, Issue 75, February 2007, Europe (PDF), written in collaboration with Mathieu Lutfy.

Open source for the women of this world. Media: Linux Magazine, Issue 72, November 2006, Europe (PDF)

Websites for the women's Movements. Media: Linux Magazine, Issue 69, August 2006, Europe (PDF)

English Voluntary and Community Sector Migrate to Ubuntu. Media: Linux Magazine, Issue 63, February 2005, Europe (PDF)

A Sunday afternoon in Café Utopik. Media: Linux Magazine, Issue 59, October 2005, Europe (PDF)

Legal Case Management Software to Aid NGOs. Media: Linux Magazine, Issue 51, February 2005, Europe (PDF).

Celebrate Software Freedom in Bulgaria. Media: Linux Magazine, Issue 50, January 2005, Europe (PDF)