Camille E. Acey

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My occasional musings….

  • Linked Out

    Here are links to a few things I’ve liked in the past few days 1) My friend Benjamin Haas of Control Group wrote a great blog post “What Women in Technology Means to Me“on his company blog. It warms the cockles of my heart for men to stand up as allies in this way. It Read more

  • Spot the Sexism

    Just got forwarded this commercial by a colleague who thought it was a cool proprietary vs. open source pitch.   The fact that they got this far without someone saying “Hey, that is wildly sexist; let’s not do this.” is really telling about the state of things in open source. In case you haven’t done Read more

  • The Elevator Pitch

    FLOSS Seems to Love the Number Four Along with my old boss, Karl Fogel, and my coworker Paul Ramsey, Sumana is high on my list of people I know (and admire!) who can synthesize big ideas in a way that is thoughtful, entertaining and easy to remember. She’s currently attending Hacker School, and while she Read more

  • Posts I Would Post If I DId Post

    I know I need to update, but I’m currently vacationing in the Alpine paradise I used to call home and can’t bring myself to do it, so instead here are the titles and summaries of a few posts I would post if I did post: A Complete Guide to Making Anyone Who Isn’t A Straight Read more

  • So You Say You Wanna Support Women in FLOSS, do ya?

    So you gripe about the lack of women in FLOSS and crack wise about meetups being “boys’ clubs” and make some vague intimations about the need for diversity in our communities, but have you done about it? Watcha gonna do about it? Well here’s one thing you can do about it here and now. Give Read more

  • Through The Looking Glass

    I’m still with the same company, but we recently moved to a new office. Lots of great changes are afoot and this is the third office we’ve worked out of in the two years I’ve been there…and the third office in a row with no private rooms. The issue of privacy bugged me a bit Read more