We here at Pingdom have been talking about why we don’t see that many women in Open Source, and were actually about to investigate it further and possibly write a blog post about it.
However, when we started to actually look around we were happily surprised. There are lots of women involved in Open Source! For some reason men just seem to stick their nose out more and put themselves in positions where they are seen (and of course there are more of them).
That said, women do seem to be highly underrepresented in the Open Source community. A study from 2006, Flosspols report , indicates that about 1.5 % of the Open Source community is female compared to 28% in proprietary software.
The Open Source community is large, though, so that 1.5% amounts to a fair share of women.
There are several different groups and websites devoted to just women and Open Source such as: LinuxChix , Apache Women , BSDChix , Debian Women , Fedora Women , GNOME Women , ...
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OStatic: "This week brings some interesting new reports on open source adoption in enterprises, providing more evidence that the economic downturn is boosting many open source product categories."... more
Songbird is like an open source version of iTunes that handles just about everything that program does, while swapping out the iTunes store interface in favor of the world’s music blogs.
You can stream music from those sources directly within the program (try that with iTunes’ browser), purchasing whatever music you encounter there that strikes your fancy from multiple sources: Amazon, Amie St., eMusic or iTunes. Or, if a blog or other site offers songs as free downloads, t... more
BOSTON, Mass — November 3, 2008 — The GNOME Foundation announced today that Motorola and Google are joining the GNOME advisory board and sponsoring the GNOME Foundation.
BOSTON, Mass — November 3, 2008 — The GNOME Foundation announced today that Motorola and Google are joining the GNOME advisory board and sponsoring the GNOME Foundation.... more
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BOSTON, Mass — November 3, 2008 — The GNOME Foundation announced today that Motorola and Google are joining the GNOME advisory board and sponsoring the GNOME Foundation.
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The GNOME Foundation announced today that Motorola and Google are joining the GNOME advisory board and sponsoring the GNOME Foundation.
With these two new additions to its advisory board, the GNOME Foundation continues to strengthen its industry support and shows that the support for free and open source software is growing - especially in the mobile [...]
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We got this reply in our support inbox after having sent a customer a friendly email asking how things were going with his Pingdom account.
He clearly got the gist of it, didn’t he? Uptime monitoring can reveal a lot, but we have never seen it boiled down to such a concise and to-the-point message before. You simply have to smile.
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In time for Easter we thought that we should list a few funny and geeky Easter eggs. Easter eggs in software don’t do anything good besides being funny which we of course like. So here we present a few selected ones that we think are funny.
Mac OS X Leopard, Blue Screen of Death
Start by connecting to a networked PC and then open finder. In the sidebar to the left an icon will be shown under Devices. The icon looks like an old CRT monitor with the well known Blue Screen of Death, if you wou... more
A month ago we released an Apple Store status banner that was powered by Pingdom’s uptime monitoring service. Anyone could put it on their website to show the US Apple Store status (up or down) in real time. The reason this is interesting is of course because Apple usually updates or releases new products in connection with taking down the Apple Store.
It became a success and we got a lot of really positive feedback. One thing that people kept asking for was a widget for their... more
There has been a lot of talk about the decline of Apache’s dominance as a web server, with competition from IIS and other alternatives like Lighttpd, but Apache is still king of the hill when you look at the top 100 websites in the US.
We here at Pingdom have noted a very wide range of web server software for the websites that we monitor uptime for. So, out of curiosity (once again) we decided to see what kind of web server software is in use by the most popular websites in the ... more
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