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* [[Jes Hall]] - KDE contributer
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* [[Jes Hall]] - KDE contributor
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* [[Caroline Hodder]] - Moodle & Mahara
 
* [[Kylene Hall]] - Linux kernel security developer; co-developer of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) driver
 
* [[Kylene Hall]] - Linux kernel security developer; co-developer of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) driver
 
* [[Sumana Harihareswara]] - Collabora lead project manager
 
* [[Sumana Harihareswara]] - Collabora lead project manager

Revision as of 03:59, 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

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 contributor
  • Caroline Hodder - Moodle & Mahara
  • 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

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

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

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

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