Author Archives: Liz Henry

Journalists don’t understand Wikipedia sometimes

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Liz Henry

This morning I saw some pissed-off twitters that led me to articles about Wikipedia’s sexist bias. Always up for a little early morning smash-the-patriarchy outrage, and well aware of some of the clusterfucks that often play out in Wikipedia admin … Continue reading →

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The particular moment of charm

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Liz Henry

I spent some time this week going through my book wishlist, requesting them from the library in a new surge of conviction that THIS TIME I won’t just eat the very same cost of the books in library fines as … Continue reading →

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File a bug: the missing manual, now with unicorns

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Liz Henry

At countless conference talks I have heard standard advice on “how to get involved in an open source project”. It goes something like this: Step 1. File a bug! Step 2. Submit a patch! (repeat steps 1 and 2 for … Continue reading →

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Noisebridge! Best thing ever!

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Liz Henry

On April 2nd and 3rd I am going to spend several hours teaching at least 70 high school physics students how to solder and some alluring information about contributing to open source software! They are doing a project to design … Continue reading →

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Shorter posts with more worklogs and book reviews

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Liz Henry

While I love to go on at length and be thorough sometimes it’s been stopping me from recording interesting stuff lately. I’ll be at a conference and take great notes, which years ago I would have posted unedited. Now I … Continue reading →

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Feminist hacker lounge at PyCon

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Liz Henry

PyCon gave non-profit booth space to The Ada Initiative and Mozilla for our Feminist Hacker Lounge and it turned out just awesome. Though it was only a 10×10 booth space lined with beanbags we met and hung out with lots … Continue reading →

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Screen reader and accessibility bug day

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Liz Henry

Tomorrow Mozilla is hosting a screen reader and general accessibility bug day. Len Burns and I have invited screen reader users of Firefox and other Mozilla products to join us in sorting through existing accessibility bugs. Some folks from the … Continue reading →

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Bugzilla hijinks, Tuesday March 5

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Liz Henry

Tomorrow evening (Pacific time) the bugzilla.mozilla.org and IT folks will be moving BMO to a new infrastructure and upgrading to Bugzilla 4.2. I’ll be up on the 7th floor of the SF office with Shyam and probably others. I know … Continue reading →

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CodeTriage looks very cool!

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Liz Henry

André Klapper showed me a nifty tool called CodeTriage yesterday. I really like its simplicity, its friendliness, and what it conveys about open source bug management. Once you sign into CodeTriage with your github account you can browse code repositories … Continue reading →

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Two especially nice days

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Liz Henry

What a gorgeous day! I could feel the vitamins shining into me! While it may be boring to read I would like to record how much I enjoyed the last two days back in SF and getting over my jet … Continue reading →

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