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Revision as of 03:57, 10 November 2009
Women who contribute or are active in Free/Libre/Open Source software projects. Feel free to add! (in alphabetical order by surname, please)
The purpose of this list is:
- To combat the Invisibility of women in open source
- To highlight the Value of women's contributions to open source
- To offer inspiration/role models for people in the field, or considering entering it
Contents | Top · 0–9 · A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
A
- Kristen Carlson Accardi - Linux kernel hacker, Linux kernel subsystem maintainer
- Sarah Allen - Ruby community
- Cat Allman - Developer Relations, Open Source Programs Office, Google
- Jean T. Anderson - Apache
- Lillian Angel - RedHat employee, OpenJDK maintainer, GNU Classpath contributor
- Elaine Ashton - Perl developer, historian, advacate
- Valerie Aurora - Linux kernel hacker, science and technical writer
- Vid Ayer - Founder of Ubuntu Women
B
- Mitchell Baker - Chief Lizard Wrangler of the Mozilla Project
- Ann Barcomb - Perl
- Donna Benjamin - conference director linux.conf.au 2008, president Linux Users Victoria 2008/2009
- Addison Berry - Drupal developer, site maintainer, and documentation team lead
- Suparna Bhattacharya - Linux kernel hacker, first woman invited to attend the Linux Kernel Summit conference
- Raven Black - Security, operations
- Rachel Blackman - founder and core developer, Ecartis list server
- Silona Bonewald - Open Source Evangelist grid.o
- Jennifer Boriss - Interaction designer at Mozilla
- Ursula Braun - Linux kernel developer, maintainer of the S/390 network drivers and IUCV networking layer
- Angela Brown - Event & Marketing Manager, The Linux Foundation
- Angela Byron - Drupal, winner Google O'Reilly Open Source Award 2008 for Best Contributor
C
- Mingming Cao - IBM employee, Linux kernel hacker
- Christine Caulfield - Red Hat Cluster developer and maintainer of the Linux DECnet project.
- Suw Charman - social media
- Marie Odea Ching - Apache VP for Archiva, contributor to Maven & Continuum
- Mallory (Mel) Chua - OLPC, Sugar, Red Hat, open source in education
- Sacha Chua - Drupal, PHP, emacs
- Diana Cionoiu - Yate, VoIP, OLPC
- Erinn Clark - co-founder of Debian Women project, Debian developer
- Gabriella Coleman - anthropologist who worked extensively on the anthropology of the Debian project
- Danese Cooper
- Laura Creighton - unix hacker, Python hacker, Europython organiser, digital rights activist
- Leah Culver - Django Project
D
- Dilma Da Silva - K42, operating systems researcher
- Selena Deckelmann - PostgreSQL Project
- Kadambari Devarajan - project on adoption of FOSS in Science and Engineering Education in India, Python hacker, Science and Technical Writer
- Melissa Draper - regional Ubuntu Membership Board, Ubuntu IRC Council, OCM of Linux Australia, Secretary of Sydney Linux Users Group
- Isabel Drost - Apache Mahout core committer
- Máirín Duffy - Red Hat interaction designer, lead of Fedora art team
- Leah Duncan - lead organiser linux.conf.au 2009, Secretary of Linux Australia
E
- Susanne Ebrecht - PostgreSQL Project
- Audrey Eschright - founder of Calagator, an open source calendar project
- Piglet Evans - developer, wiscondb, a WisCon (feminist SF convention) convention planner
F
- Carlie Fairchild - Publisher, Linux Journal
- Ruthe Farmer - Director of Strategic Initiatives, National Center for Women & Information Technology
- Helen Faulkner - Debian Developer
- Esther Filderman - HA/HPC supercomputing, system administration
- Steph Fox - PHP contributor
G
- Elizabeth Garbee - has spoken at linux.conf.au, SCALE, Ohio Linux Fest, FISL, OSCON
- Sulamita Garcia - LinuxChix Brazil, LinuxChix International and open source community manager for Intel Latin America
- Mary Gardiner - chair of linux.conf.au program, AussieChix founder
- Ankita Garg - Linux kernel hacker, IBM Bangalore
- Machtelt Garrels - Linux Documentation Project, founder of OpenDoc Society
- Claire Giordano - Manager, OpenSolaris
- Sara Golemon - PHP core contributor
- Jennifer Griffin - Dreamwidth developer
- Amy Griffis - Linux kernel security developer, audit subsystem
- Ana Beatriz Guerrero López - Debian Developer and KDE Developer
- Telsa Gwynne - former bug reporter, bug triager, translator for the GNOME project
H
- Jes Hall - KDE contributer
- Kylene Hall - Linux kernel security developer; co-developer of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) driver
- Sumana Harihareswara - Collabora lead project manager
- Randi Harper - FreeBSD Project
- Lesley Harrison - Linux Sysadmin, tech author
- Julianne Frances Haugh - Author/maintainer of shadow
- Leslie Hawthorn - Google open source manager
- Liz Henry - Contributor to OTW and Dreamwidth, (former) Socialtext open source manager, Drupal developer
- Amy Herzog - contributor to the SELinux project, infosec engineer at MITRE
- Hope Hines - Founder of Olocity, open source storage management application
- Sarah Hobbs - Ubuntu release team, former Kubuntu core developer
- Maureen Hoffert - Project manager, HP Open Source and Linux Lab
- Emma Jane Hogbin - The Linux Documentation Project
- Lisa Hoover - http://ostatic.com/member/lisahoover
- Cornelia Huck - Linux kernel developer (s390, sysfs)
I
J
- Gloria W Jacobs - Python developer, co-organizer of NYC Python meetup, Python NYC Apprenticeship founder.
- Christine Jamison - current maintainer of getty_ps
- Janis Johnson - maintains gcc testing infrastructure
- Lynne Jolitz - co-lead developer, 386BSD
- Pamela Jones - winner, Google O'Reilly Open Source Award 2007 "Best FUD Fighter"
- Ursula "Ursinha" Junque - Launchpad developer / Ubuntu Brazil
K
- Juliet Kemp - Linux sysadmin and writer
- Rikki Kite - Associate Publisher, Linux Pro Magazine
- Linda Knippers - Linux kernel security developer, Tru64 AdvFS (source released under GPLv2)
- Olga Kornievskaia - Distributed security R&D in the CITI group at UMich; Linux kernel developer on NFS, and RPC security
- Elizabeth Krumbach - Linux sysadmin, Ubuntu Community Council Member, Coordinator of the Philadelphia area Linux Users Group
L
- Joy Latten - Linux security developer (Labeled IPSec)
- Dru Lavigne - Chair, BSD Certification Group
- Julia Lawall - Linux kernel developer; leading researcher in domain-specific languages; developer on the Coccinelle, Bossa and DiaSpec projects
- Penny Leach - Mahara developer, Moodle developer
- Delphine Lebédel - Community Coordinator at Mozilla, in charge of the current Women & Mozilla project (aka WoMoz)
- Dee-Ann LeBlanc - Writer, journalist, editor, educator, and speaker on open source, Linux, and Content Management Systems
- Alexandra Leisse - Web community manager for Qt
- Hanna Linder - former Linux kernel hacker, VMWare Support Engineer for IBM
- Sandra Loosemore - gcc contributor
M
- Danielle Madeley - GNOME developer
- Cathy Malmrose - Founder Zareason - company selling hardware + linux
- Margarita Manterola - Debian Developer
- Kathey Marsden - Apache
- Caitlyn Martin - Linux Yarok developer, consultant, writer, former Vector Linux package and repository maintainer
- Elizabeth Mattijsen - Perl
- Nancy Mauro-Flude - Genderchangers Academy, Eclectic Tech Carnival (OSS education) free software artist, project manager and advocater
- Helen McCall - OpenShot Developer, Ubuntu Community contributer, Wikipedia Editor
- Amanda McPherson - VP of Marketing and Developer Programs, Linux Foundation
- Pauline Middelink - Linux kernel developer in late 1990s/early 2000s
- Juliane De Moerlooze - computer scientist / feminist / bxlug president
- Sherry Q. Moore - OpenSolaris core contributor, technical leader of the Solaris x86 kernel team
- Mackenzie Morgan - Ubuntu community member and contributor
- Tina Müller - Perl
- Dorcas Muthoni - APC-Africa-Women (AAW) trainer, promoting open source software to African women, winner of Anita Borg Change Agent Award
N
- Elizabeth Naramore - founder, PHPWomen
- Anne Nicolas-Velu - head of engineering, Mandriva
- Naomi Novik - committee chair/project lead, Archive Of Our Own
- Dorit Nuzman - gcc contributor
- Nnenna Nwakanma - FOSSFA, OSI
O
- Terri Oda - steering committee, Mailman and list admin/sysadmin for Linuxchix
- Leann Ogasawara - Ubuntu kernel quality assurance
- Cat Okita - Systems, Security, Networks
- Anne Østergaard
P
- MaryBeth Panagos - activism for open media standards and OSS tools (Open Media Now)
- Surbhi Palande - Ubuntu Kernel Engineer
- Denise Paolucci - Dreamwidth founder
- Meredith L. Patterson - PostgreSQL, security tools
- Celeste Lyn Paul - KDE Usability team, KDE eV board member
- Akkana Peck - former Mozilla developer, GIMP trainer and writer
- Radia Perlman - mother of the internet, inventor of spanning tree protocol
- Stormy Peters - GNOME Foundation executive director
- Christine Peterson - credited with originating the term 'open source'
- Silvia Pfeiffer - media developer, ANNODEX project
- Lydia Pintscher - Amarok community manager, KDE Community Working Group
- Lynne Pope - Mambo developer, President Mambo Foundation
- Susan Potter - Twitter4R, metafusion-crypto & metafusion-thor developer & founder
- Ara Pulido - Mago automated test suite, Canonical QA
Q
R
- Candace Ramcharan - President, Linux Fund
- Allison Randal - Parrot Project, Perl 6, O'Reilly Media
- Emily Ratliff - Linux security (trusted computing, certifications); runs the Open Source Security blog
- Anna Ravenscroft - Python, co-editor of The Python Cookbook
- Meike Reichle - Debian developer
- Deb Richardson - Mozilla developer relations lead, founder of LinuxChix
- Jacinta Richardson - Perl, winner 2008 White Camel Award
- Kirrily Robert - Perl, open source evangelist
- Amaya Rodrigo Sastre - co-founder of Debian Women project, Debian developer
- Miriam Ruiz - Debian Developer
- Susanne Ruthven - Barrister, and organiser of linux.conf.au 2010
- Joanna Rutkowska - Xen developer
S
- Bess Sadler - Blacklight developer
- Loulwa Salem - Linux security developer: BogoSec source code security analyzer; Common Criteria certification of RHEL and SLES
- Karen Sandler - Legal Council, The Software Freedom Law Center
- Runa Sandvik - Debian contributor
- Carla Schroder - Author of The Linux Cookbook, TresChix of Linuxchix
- Jenny Scott-Thompson - Contributor to Dreamwidth and the Archive of Our Own
- Alolita Sharma - Software Engineer, Entrepreneur, Activist, Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- Sarah Sharp - Linux kernel hacker, USB
- Nanako Shiraishi - One of the primary authors of git
- Noirin Shirley - Vice President, Apache Software Foundation (responsible for conferences & events); Apache documentation contributor, community builder
- Nivedita Singhvi - Linux kernel, chair of the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference
- Zoe Slattery - PHP QA contributor
- Elizabeth Smith - PHP core contributor - Windows, PHP-GTK, Cairo PECL extension
- Wendy Smoak - Maven expert & author, contributor to Apache projects including Struts, MyFaces, Shale, Maven, and Tiles
- Femke Snelting - Open Source Publishing (graphics design agency that uses only open source tools and creates some, too)
- Christine Spang - Debian developer, OLPC developer
- Sue Spence - Perl programmer, speaker
- Anuradha Suraparaju - Dirac open codec developer
T
- Audrey Tang - Perl hacker and founder of the Pugs project
- Parisa Tabriz - security developer
- Laura Thomson - author, PHP and MySQL Web Development
- Beth Tibbitts - Eclipse developer
- Carolyn Tice - gcc developer
- Marcela Tiznado - Debian Developer
- Mena Trott - co-lead developer, Movable Type
U
- Ubergeekchick - GNOME/GTK+2.0 applications
V
- Wendy Van Dijk - Perl programmer
- Debora Velarde - Linux kernel developer, co-maintainer of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) driver
- Eugenia Vlasova - open source evangelist, philologist, contribute translations for many Linux projects
- Jenn Vespermann - LinuxChix coordinator in early 2000s, author of CVS book, trainer
W
- Brenda Wallace - Drupal, OLPC & Laconica hacker
- Stacey Walker - moodle and mahara hacker
- Hanna Wallach - women in Open Source researcher, women in GNOME promoter
- Linda Walsh - SGI employee, former Linux kernel hacker on capabilities functionality
- Pia Waugh - Australian open source contributor and advocate
- Kimberlee Weatherall - Australian IP law guru, especially in regard to Open Source
- Fernanda G. Weiden - Vice president of FSFE, Debian contributor
- Susan Wu - Apache
X
Y
- Yi Ma Mao - Perl
Z
- Elena Zannoni - GDB, language and toolchain hacker, currently managing the Linux Engineering Tools team at Oracle
- Xiaolan (Catherine) Zhang - Linux kernel security developer; USENIX Security and Annual Technical Conference program committee member
- S. P. Zeidler - NetBSD and pkgsrc developer
- Mimi Zohar - Linux kernel security hacker; maintainer of the Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) subsystem