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timOpen Source Bridge was the first open source conference I've attended, and it left me with high expectations for any other open source conferences I might attend! While sadly I don't think all other conferences are going to have primarily vegan food and stickers about intersectional feminism, I've been glad to be able to connect with people like me. That is to say: people who do open source software and care about equality and liberation from oppression. Most of the time I feel like I either have to hide the aspect of me that gets engrossed in puzzles and problem-solving, or else hide my queer, trans, dominant-paradigm-questioning self. This conference was the few places I've ever been where being both doesn't just seem like something that's vaguely tolerated, but rather, the norm.
...and that's the case even though the only session I attended in its entirety today was Ashe Dryden's keynote on diversity and open source culture :-D Listening to Ashe speak, it was hard to imagine how anybody could deny that the homogeneity of open-source participants is a real problem or that solving it is worth the effort.
While sitting around in the hacker lounge with the other Geek Feminism folks, I started working on the RUST_PATH environment variable. One problem we ran into was that the rustpkg tests shell out to run rustpkg and rustc, and because all the Rust tests get run in parallel, and there's an issue right now with rustc not using llvm thread-safely, stuff goes wrong on some platforms. Since the tests I'll have to add for RUST_PATH will modify the environment, that issue will also block me from checking in this work.
But for now, I'm off to the diversity birds-of-a-feather session.
...and that's the case even though the only session I attended in its entirety today was Ashe Dryden's keynote on diversity and open source culture :-D Listening to Ashe speak, it was hard to imagine how anybody could deny that the homogeneity of open-source participants is a real problem or that solving it is worth the effort.
While sitting around in the hacker lounge with the other Geek Feminism folks, I started working on the RUST_PATH environment variable. One problem we ran into was that the rustpkg tests shell out to run rustpkg and rustc, and because all the Rust tests get run in parallel, and there's an issue right now with rustc not using llvm thread-safely, stuff goes wrong on some platforms. Since the tests I'll have to add for RUST_PATH will modify the environment, that issue will also block me from checking in this work.
But for now, I'm off to the diversity birds-of-a-feather session.
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Date: 2013-06-21 02:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
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