Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 of type Panel about Open Source

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Saturday 10th March 2012

• Binary Bitches: Keeping Open Source Open to Women

  by Andrea Hickerson, Xanthe Matychak and Mairin Duffy

  Open source communities pride themselves on the premise of egalitarian communication where every voice is valued, heard and documented. Despite this noble goal, this panel discusses how women and their communication style might nevertheless result in their marginalization or deter them from participating in open source communities in the first place.
  This dual presentation, moderated by a journalist, brings together two women with different perspectives and experiences working in open source communities. Together they will discuss how the marginalization of women in open source affects process and product outcomes, particularly with regard to design. We will also discuss strategies to improve participation in open source communities both from an industry and educational perspective. We look forward to starting a conversation about problems with, and solutions for, working in open source communities.
  To make this dual conversation engaging and interactive, it will take questions from the crowd and ask for examples/testimonials from men and women about gendered communication in open source communities.
  Have a comment, story or experience you would like to share with us before the panel? Email our moderator, Andrea Hickerson, andreahickerson21@gmail.com

  • Open Source
  • Women in Tech

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Room 9ABC, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip

Sunday 11th March 2012

• A License to RHoK

  by Nicholas Skytland, Elizabeth Sabet, Patrick Svenburg, Christiaan Adams and Todd Khozien

  Want to change the world? Then get a license to RHoK! Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global initiative to create practical open source solutions to humanity's toughest challenges. Organized by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, HP, NASA and the World Bank, RhoK brings together thousands of the best and brightest developers from around the world - like YOU - to participate in fast–paced and competitive marathon coding events resulting in real applications that are making an impact on humanity. The RHoK community has grown rapidly over the past 2 years, with 3000 participants from 43 cities who have worked on 214 distinct solutions. This talk will bring together "RHoKstars" to provide an overview of the initiative, discuss some of the solutions developed, describe how the SxSW community can contribute to the effort and most importantly, brainstorm about what is next. …and if they let us, we'll be playing rock music and lighting off fireworks!

  • Hack Day
  • Open Source
  • RHOK

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Salon E, AT&T Conference Center

  Coverage audio clip slide deck