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The Prestigious Free Software Award Goes to Karen Sandler (sfconservancy.org)
Each year the Free Software award goes to someone making "a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software." This year's winner is a former executive of the GNOME Foundation, Karen Sandler. Jeremy Allison - Sam, Slashdot reader #8,157, brought this announcement.
Richard Stallman, President of the FSF, presented Sandler with the award during a ceremony. Stallman highlighted Sandler's dedication to software freedom. Stallman told the crowd that Sandler's "vivid warning about backdoored nonfree software in implanted medical devices has brought the issue home to people who never wrote a line of code. Her efforts, usually not in the public eye, to provide pro bono legal advice to free software organizations and [with Software Freedom Conservancy] to organize infrastructure for free software projects and copyleft defense, have been equally helpful."
In her acceptance speech, Sandler spoke about her dedication to free software as a patient, advocate and professional. "Coming to terms with a dangerous heart condition should never have cost me fundamental control over the technology that my life relies on", said Sandler... "This issue is personal not just for me but for anyone who relies on software, and today that means every single person."
In her acceptance speech, Sandler spoke about her dedication to free software as a patient, advocate and professional. "Coming to terms with a dangerous heart condition should never have cost me fundamental control over the technology that my life relies on", said Sandler... "This issue is personal not just for me but for anyone who relies on software, and today that means every single person."
Each year the Fee Software award goes to someone making "a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software." [emphasis added]
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I've used Linux for 22 years and participated in forums and discussions related to the kernel and to various projects off and on. I've never heard of this award. How is it prestigious?
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You mean the walls made from choices that free women make willingly in order to shape their lives as they choose? Men do this, too, btw. The only thing wrong here is your assumption that the outcomes must be evenly distributed.
While your point is valid in theory, is does not completely explain the gender disparity in STEM and, for that matter, in other fields.
In a "perfect" world where there was no gender-specific pressure to pursue careers, I would expect most fields (all except those few which depend on gender-specific physical or psychological attributes) to be a lot closer to 50/50 than they are in most STEM fields are today in the United States.
In America, there are still too many teenagers and young adults whose early educational years had gender biases that "pushed" people toward certain fields and away from others based on their gender. I do not know if this is still true for today's under-10-year-olds but even if it's not, it will be at least 15 years for the existing bias to stop appearing in the statistics of career choices of fresh college graduates.
In America, there is also still some degree of "male favoritism" in many of the STEM fields once you start a career. Sadly, there are still a few managers who will treat male employees better than female employees simply because they are male or, more subtly, simply because they travel in the same male-dominated social circles.
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That’s bullshit. That reddit thread takes data on a short period of time and doesn’t take the whole picture into consideration. The GNOME Foundation never diverted money from its budget to spend it on OPW. All expenses had matching income (+ a commission for administrative fees), but they may not show up in the report for the same year. Take the annual reports for 2011—2017 and you’ll be able to see it.
The issue that OPW created for GNOME and that started this rumour was cash flow, because sponsors took too much time to pay their invoices and GNOME ended up fronting the stipends for interns.
Parent should be moded down because it is the opposite of “informative”.
For one month there was an issue where paying interns was scheduled to happen before sponsors paid the foundation, and because the programme was growing quickly there was a temporary shortfall. It was resolved quickly and without drama.
This was at the height of the anti-SJW movement. Vox Day wrote some nonsense about it (your third link), others reposted (your second link is just a Day repost) and the narrative that the Outreachy programme was destroying GNOME became fake news.
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