Timeline of geek feminism

From Geek Feminism Wiki

Let's list and track some of the loci of intense Internet discussion in feminism and geek feminism. Please add milestones, mailing list or blog/website/wiki beginnings. Add particular notable controversies and kerfluffles at timeline of incidents.

Contents 1 1977 2 1980s (approximate) 3 1987 4 1988 5 1996 6 1998 7 2001 8 2002 9 2003 10 2004 11 2005 12 2006 13 2007 14 2008 15 2009 16 Undated

[edit] 1977

• First WisCon (feminist Science Fiction convention)

[edit] 1980s (approximate)

• (Sometime in the 80s or very early 90s) FEM-SF listserv established

[edit] 1987

• Systers founded by Anita Borg

[edit] 1988

• Comp.society.women founded

[edit] 1996

• (or 1995?) Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Utopia pages begin (later to become feministsf.net)

[edit] 1998

• (or 1999?) LinuxChix founded by Deb Richardson

[edit] 2001

• Carl Brandon Society mailing list established

[edit] 2002

• grrls-only LinuxChix list founded by Valerie Aurora

[edit] 2003

• Jo Walton pours coke on David Brin's head at Boskone.

[edit] 2004

• Debian Women founded by Erinn Clark and Amaya Rodrigo Sastre

[edit] 2005

• Girl Geek Dinners started by Sarah Blow in London
• Women@apache.org mailing list founded

[edit] 2006

• Ubuntu Women founded
• Cultural appropriation discussion, after WisCon
• Sudden rise of Feminist Comics Blogging
• Wikichix founded

[edit] 2007

• First LinuxChix miniconf at Linux.conf.au
• First WIOS (Women in Open Source) miniconf at SCALE
• First She's Geeky unconference
• An Open Letter to the Open Source Community by Melissa Draper

[edit] 2008

• http://Geekspeakr.com launched - Directory of women technical speakers

[edit] 2009

See also 2009 women in FLOSS discussions for a series of discussions in this year.

• January:
  • linux.conf.au's first diversity delegates attend
• April:
  • Open beta of Dreamwidth, a majority-female FLOSS project
• July:
  • Python community diversity list started
  • Standing Out in the Crowd keynote at OSCON
• August: Geek Feminism blog founded
• September:
  • First Diversity in Open Source Workshop at the Ohio LinuxFest
  • FOSS Women planet founded
  • FSF mini-summit on Women in Free Software
  • Women In Free Software mailing list founded
• October:
  • Python Diversity Statement released
  • Google offers diversity scholarships to open source conference attendees (Linux.conf.au, PyCon, ???)
  • Three women win Nobel Prizes
• November:
  • First She's Geeky unconference in Washington D. C.
  • (projected) open beta of the Archive Of Our Own, a majority-female FLOSS project

[edit] Undated

• Cerise, Iris gaming mag & forums established
• Women 2.0 founded
• DevChix founded
• Code n Splode founded
• Ada Lovelace movie