A comprehensive list of 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 Edit

• Kristen Carlson Accardi - Linux kernel hacker, Linux kernel subsystem maintainer
• Sarah Allen - Ruby community
• Cat Allman - Open Source Programs Office, Google, formerly with USENIX, Sendmail
• Jean T. Anderson - Apache
• Lillian Angel - RedHat employee, OpenJDK maintainer, GNU Classpath contributor
• Elaine Ashton - Perl developer, historian, advocate
• Valerie Aurora - Linux kernel hacker, science and technical writer, Ada Initiative co-founder
• Vid Ayer - Founder of Ubuntu Women

B Edit

• Mitchell Baker - Chief Lizard Wrangler of the Mozilla Project
• Ann Barcomb - Perl
• Na'Tosha Bard - Mercurial
• Alex Bayley (Skud) - sometime Perl hacker, community member and open source evangelist, now open data, music and "open stuff"
• Donna Benjamin - conference director linux.conf.au 2008, president Linux Users Victoria 2008/2009, Drupal Association Board Member-elect
• Robyn Bergeron - Fedora Project Leader
• 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
• Zaheda Bhorat - Google Open Standards Manager and former Community Manager OpenOffice.org
• Rachel Blackman - founder and core developer, Ecartis list server
• Augustina Blair - Perl developer and Debian Linux fangirl, contributed to Ubuntu documentation and Dreamwidth projects
• Lukas Blakk — Mozilla, PyStar
• Silona Bonewald - Open Source Evangelist grid.o
• Jennifer Boriss - Interaction designer at Mozilla
• Alice Boxhall - Google employee, Chrome/Chromium and Webkit developer
• Ursula Braun - Linux kernel developer, maintainer of the S/390 network drivers and IUCV networking layer
• Angela Brown - Event & Marketing Manager, The Linux Foundation
• Diane Bruce - major contributor to and informal project leader of the IRCD-Hybrid software, occasional FreeBSD hacker [1] [2]
• Angela Byron - Drupal, winner Google O'Reilly Open Source Award 2008 for Best Contributor
• Rain Breaw - Drupal

C Edit

• Mingming Cao - IBM employee, Linux kernel hacker
• Christine Caulfield - Red Hat Cluster developer and maintainer of the Linux DECnet project.
• Suw Charman - social media
• Maria Odea Ching-Mallete - Apache VP for Archiva, contributor to Maven & Continuum
• Kristina Chodorow - MongoDB core contributor
• Christina Choi - Data Analyst (Applied Statistics) at Mozilla
• Mallory (Mel) Chua - OLPC, Sugar, Red Hat, open source in education
• Sacha Chua - Drupal, PHP, emacs
• Diana Cionoiu - Yate, VoIP, OLPC
• Kristina Clair - linux administrator; perl hacker; ruby/ruby on rails developer;crabgrass developer
• Erinn Clark - co-founder of Debian Women project, Debian developer, Tor project
• 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 Edit

• Dilma Da Silva - K42, operating systems researcher
• Alexia Death - GIMP developer, artist
• 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, Ubuntu Women leader
• 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 Edit

• Susanne Ebrecht - PostgreSQL Project
• Beth Lynn Eicher - Founder of the Ohio LinuxFest a Free software conference
• Audrey Eschright - founder of Calagator, an open source calendar project
• Karen Etheridge - contributor to Moose - a post-modern object system for Perl, and other Perl projects
• Piglet Evans - developer, wiscondb, a WisCon (feminist SF convention) convention planner

FEdit

• Carlie Fairchild - Publisher, Linux Journal
• Ruthe Farmer - Director of Strategic Initiatives, National Center for Women & Information Technology
• Helen Faulkner - Debian Developer
• Esther ("Moose") Filderman - Ohio LinuxFest organiser, system administrator (currently for the Organization for Transformative Works)
• Beth Flanagan - (aka pidge) Yocto Project developer and release engineer.
• Cassondra Foesch - (trans) PearPC developer, and community manager, Sourceforge POTM recognition
• Helen Foster - Moodle community manager
• Steph Fox - PHP contributor
• Taryn Fox - GNOME intern working on developer documentation
• Jes Fraser (formerly Jes Hall) - KDE contributor
• Luciana Fujii Pontello - Cheese maintainer in GNOME, works for Collabora.
• Cheryl Fillekes

G Edit

• 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 - past chair of linux.conf.au program, AussieChix founder, Python community member, Ada Initiative co-founder
• Ankita Garg - Linux kernel hacker, IBM Bangalore
• Machtelt Garrels - Linux Documentation Project, founder of OpenDoc Society
• Anne Gentle - OpenStack Documentation Coordinator, serves on OpenStack Technical Committee
• Claire Giordano - Manager, OpenSolaris
• Sara Golemon - PHP core contributor
• Amber Graner - Ubuntu Weekly News editor
• 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
• Komal Gandhi - India's first Women Mozilla Representer, Localizer Project Leader

H Edit

• Caroline Hodder - Moodle & Mahara
• Kylene Hall - Linux kernel security developer; co-developer of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) driver
• Michelle Hall - Qimo developer
• Meadhbh Hamrick - Contributor to the open-source Snowglobe Second Life(tm) Viewer.
• Sumana Harihareswara - coordinates volunteer software development at the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Randi Harper - FreeBSD Project
• Lesley Harrison - Linux Sysadmin, tech author
• Julianne Frances Haugh - Author/maintainer of shadow
• Leslie Hawthorn - community manager at Red Hat, former 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
• Maureen Hoffert - Project manager, HP Open Source and Linux Lab
• Emma Jane Hogbin - The Linux Documentation Project
• Jennifer Hodgdon - Drupal Search Maintainer and Coordinator of API Documentation Team
• Leigh Honeywell - Ubuntu Women leader
• Lisa Hoover - http://ostatic.com/member/lisahoover
• Cornelia Huck - Linux kernel developer (s390, sysfs)

I Edit

J Edit

• 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
• Mary Lou Jepsen - Screen technologist, inventor of OLPC's amazing screen, founder of Pixel Qi screen tech company

K Edit

• Anjali Kulkarni - Freebsd developer and hacker, Juniper Networks
• Juliet Kemp - Linux sysadmin and writer
• Ariane Khachatourians - Drupal documentation lead drupal.org community spotlight
• Rikki Kite - Associate Publisher, Linux Pro Magazine
• Linda Knippers - Linux kernel security developer, Tru64 AdvFS (source released under GPLv2)
• Christie Koehler - Mozillian, co-chair of Open Source Bridge, co-founder of Stumptown Syndicate, community organizer
• Olga Kornievskaia - Distributed security R&D in the CITI group at UMich; Linux kernel developer on NFS, and RPC security
• Sarah Kowalik - Ubuntu release team, former Kubuntu core developer
• Maia Kozheva - Ubuntu Developer
• Elizabeth Krumbach - Linux sysadmin, Ubuntu Community Council Member, Coordinator of the Philadelphia area Linux Users Group, Ubuntu Women leader
• Kanchana Welagedara- Apache Member ,Contributor in many Apache projects,FOSS evangelist
• Pranavi Reddy Katkam - Open source advocate, technical writer

L Edit

• Jasmine Langridge - Software Engineer at Google, programmed FOSS game Trigger Rally
• 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
• Sharon Levy - PHP developer, advocate
• Hanna Linder - former Linux kernel hacker, VMWare Support Engineer for IBM
• Sandra Loosemore - gcc contributor

M Edit

• 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
• Jessica McKellar — Python programmer, Python teacher, KSplice
• Amanda McPherson - VP of Marketing and Developer Programs, Linux Foundation
• Caroline Meeks, OLPC and Sugar
• Pauline Middelink - Linux kernel developer in late 1990s/early 2000s
• Juliane De Moerlooze - computer scientist / feminist / bxlug president
• Kim Moir - Mozilla Release Engineer
• Sherry Q. Moore - OpenSolaris core contributor, technical leader of the Solaris x86 kernel team
• Mackenzie Morgan - Ubuntu Developer
• Marion Mpanga, FOSSFA Executive, co-founder of the Uganda Center for Open Source Software
• Tina Müller - Perl
• Dorcas Muthoni - APC-Africa-Women (AAW) trainer, promoting open source software to African women, winner of Anita Borg Change Agent Award
• Marion Mpanga - Uganda Center for Open Source Software, FOSSFA

N Edit

• Elizabeth Naramore - founder, PHPWomen
• Anne Nicolas - Founder and Lead Packager, [Mageia], founder, partner and engineer at [Hupstream]
• Naomi Novik - committee chair/project lead, Archive Of Our Own
• Dorit Nuzman - gcc contributor
• Nnenna Nwakanma - FOSSFA, OSI
• Golnaz Niliyeh - Co-Founder of Blogilo

O Edit

• Terri Oda - steering committee, Mailman and list admin/sysadmin for Linuxchix
• Cat Okita - Systems, Security, Networks
• Ory Okolloh - Ushahidi
• Anne Østergaard
• Rosa María Orellana - Drupal, open source evangelis (Drupalchix, Python), co-organizer Python Perú
• Leann Ogasawara - Ubuntu Kernel release Manager

P Edit

• 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
• Karen Pauley - Perl community organiser
• Akkana Peck - former Mozilla developer, GIMP trainer and writer
• Radia Perlman - mother of the internet, inventor of spanning tree protocol
• Stormy Peters - Mozilla developer relations, former GNOME Foundation executive director
• Christine Peterson - credited with originating the term 'open source'
• Silvia Pfeiffer - media developer, ANNODEX project
• Lydia Pintscher - KDE Community Working Group, KDE e.V. board, Open Semantic Data Association steering committee, Wikidata community communications
• Noirin Plunkett - Technical writer, Apache Software Foundation director, ApacheCon organiser
• 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 Edit

• Sol Quimpo - Drupal & Docvert

R Edit

• Angie Radtke - Joomla! contributor
• Candace Ramcharan - President, Linux Fund
• Allison Randal - Parrot Project, Perl 6, O'Reilly Media , technical architect of Ubuntu project
• Emily Ratliff - Linux security (trusted computing, certifications); runs the Open Source Security blog
• Anna Ravenscroft - Python, co-editor of The Python Cookbook
• Liz Rea - Koha developer
• Meike Reichle - Debian developer
• Deb Richardson - Mozilla developer relations lead, founder of LinuxChix
• Amy Rich - Mozilla systems administrator
• Jacinta Richardson - Perl, winner 2008 White Camel Award
• Amaya Rodrigo Sastre - co-founder of Debian Women project, Debian developer
• Audrey Roy - co-creator/lead of Django Packages & Packaginator open source projects, co-founder of PyLadies Python women's advocacy group
• Miriam Ruiz - Debian Developer
• Karen Rustad - OpenHatch developer, designer, and board member
• Susanne Ruthven - Geek Barrister, and organiser of linux.conf.au 2010
• Joanna Rutkowska - Xen developer
• Wendy Robinson - Open Source Matters board member, Community Leadership - Joomla!
• Tabitha Roder - One Laptop per Child, Moodle, Sugar, Mahara. Ran a Miniconf at linux.conf.au 2010, Software Freedom Day kids host.
• Susan Rust - Drupal
• Marta Rybczynska - Co-ordinator of the KDE Polish team

S Edit

• Bess Sadler - Blacklight developer
• Loulwa Salem - Linux security developer: BogoSec source code security analyzer; Common Criteria certification of RHEL and SLES
• Pamela Samuelson, law professor at UC Berkeley and open-source/information policy expert
• Karen Sandler - Executive director, GNOME Foundation, legal counsel, The Software Freedom Law Center
• Runa A. Sandvik - Security researcher, contributes to The Tor Project and Debian
• 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
• Aurynn Shaw - Postgresql
• Nanako Shiraishi - One of the primary authors of git
• Jane Silber - Canonical Ltd COO (2004–2010) and CEO (March 2010–)
• 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
• Megan Squire - FLOSSmole project leader, Associate Professor in Computing Sciences at Elon University
• Kate Stewart - Ubuntu Release Manager
• Anuradha Suraparaju - Dirac open codec developer
• Chach Sikes - Drupal
• Ruby Sinreich - Drupal
• Sarah Stierch - Wikimedia Foundation

T Edit

• Parisa Tabriz - security developer
• Jessica Tallon - creator of MegBot and contributor to Haiku
• Audrey Tang - Perl hacker and founder of the Pugs project
• Laura Thomson - author, PHP and MySQL Web Development, and engineering manager at Mozilla
• Beth Tibbitts - Eclipse developer
• Carolyn Tice - gcc developer
• Marcela Tiznado - Debian Developer
• Mena Trott - co-lead developer, Movable Type

U Edit

• Ubergeekchick - GNOME/GTK+2.0 applications

V Edit

• 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
• Sree Veturi - Drupal (along with other open source technologies)

W Edit

• 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
• Elin Waring - President of Open Source Matters, Joomla! contributor
• 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
• Jane Wells - WordPress UX and Community lead
• Sophie Wilson - Designed Acorn Micro-Computer, ARM processor instruction set

• Gloria W Jacobs - Freelance Python developer, co-organizer of NYC Python meetup, Python NYC Apprenticeship founder.

• Susan Wu - Apache

X Edit

Y Edit

• Yi Ma Mao - Perl

Z Edit

• 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
• Marina Zhurakhinskaya - GNOME Shell developer, Red Hat employee, lead of GNOME Women's Outreach [3]
• Mimi Zohar - Linux kernel security hacker; maintainer of the Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) subsystem