The Third Bit

Tatiana Apandi at O’Reilly has organized a series of “Women in Tech” articles, the first of which is now up on the web. The blurb says:

The timely new series reveals the challenges, rewards, and, sometimes, frustrations of being a woman in an industry still dominated by men. “Each day, we’ll present a different woman’s story that I believe will open readers’ eyes to her unique perspective,” explains Apandi. “We have contributions from conference organizers, authors, programmers, developers, and more–women who have pioneered prosperous careers in technology.”

Contributors will include:

• Anna Martelli, Ravenscroft, Pythonista
• Audrey Eschright, independent programmer/designer/publisher
• CJ Rayhill, SVP of Product Management and Technology for Safari Books

Online

• Dawn Foster, Director of Developer Relations at Jive Software
• Dru Lavigne, Chair of the BSD Certification Group Inc
• Gabrielle Roth, member of the Portland Perl Mongers
• Jeni Tennison, independent consultant and author
• Jill Dyche, partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting
• Juliet Kemp, Systems Administrator for the Astrophysics group at

Imperial College

• Julia Lerman, Board member of the Vermont Software Developer Alliance,

runs the Vermont.NET User Group

• Kaliya Hamlin, unconference Shesgeeky.org organizer
• Kirsten Jones, webmaster for The Perl Foundation
• Lauren Wood, Chaired for the W3C DOM Working Group
• Leslie Hawthorn, works for Open Source Programs Office at Google
• Selena Deckelmann, leads PDXPUG, a PostgreSQL Users Group
• Shelley Powers, software developer/architect, photographer, and author

RSS is available at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/feed/78?format=rss2 — it promises to be a very interesting read.

Greg Wilson Equity