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 1993 6 1996 7 1998 8 2001 9 2002 10 2003 11 2004 12 2005 13 2006 14 2007 15 2008 16 2009 17 2010 18 2011 19 2012 20 2013 21 Undated

1977 Edit

• First WisCon (feminist Science Fiction convention)

1980s (approximate) Edit

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

1987 Edit

• Systers founded by Anita Borg

1988 Edit

• Comp.society.women founded

1993 Edit

• geekgirl [1]created by rosiex

1996 Edit

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

1998 Edit

• (or 1999?) LinuxChix founded by Deb Richardson

2001 Edit

• Carl Brandon Society mailing list established

2002 Edit

• grrls-only LinuxChix list founded by Valerie Aurora

2003 Edit

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

2004 Edit

• Debian Women founded by Erinn Clark and Amaya Rodrigo Sastre
• Google begins awarding the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

2005 Edit

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

2006 Edit

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

2007 Edit

• 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

2008 Edit

• http://Geekspeakr.com launched - Directory of women technical speakers
• April:
  • the Backup Project, encouraging people to intervene in event harassment, is founded
• May:
  • Skud begins the Geek Feminism Wiki (ie, this wiki)

2009 Edit

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

2010 Edit

• January:
  • linux.conf.au: Haecksen miniconf (replacing LinuxChix miniconf), second year of diversity delegates
• May:
  • Backup Ribbon Project founded.
• June:
  • WikiProject Feminism established on English Wikipedia.
• November:
  • Conference anti-harassment policy developed for Open Source and technical conferences, by Valerie Aurora and others.

2011Edit

• January
  • The Ada Initiative founded.
  • linux.conf.au: Haecksen miniconf

• November
  • Men Call Me Things twitter campaign
    • Marieke Hardy name-and-shame incident

2012Edit

• January
  • The Ada Initiative holds the first AdaCamp
  • linux.conf.au: Haecksen miniconf
• May
  • Anita Sarkeesian launches the Feminist Frequency Kickstarter
  • the 2012 atheist and skeptic harassment policies campaign begins
• July
  • KC makes the Creeper Move cards for DEFCON

2013Edit

• March
  • Christie Aschwanden creates the Finkbeiner test

Undated Edit

• Cerise, Iris gaming mag & forums established
• Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) established nationally and at many university campuses
• Women 2.0 founded
• DevChix founded
• Code n Splode founded
• Ada Lovelace movie
• Bechdel test