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List of women in FLOSS

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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
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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Yi Ma Mao - Perl

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  • 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
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