Camille E. Acey

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My occasional musings….

  • How To Get Involved In Free and Open Source Software and Stuff Today! Yes, TODAY!

    Image credits: Roy Lathwell Download a Linux Distro today and join the corresponding forum (Downloads: Ubuntu Debian Fedora ) (Forums: Ubuntu Debian Fedora)   Go to Wikipedia, click on your chosen language group, go to the top right corner and click on “create an account”, read the tutorial on how to edit, and then navigate to Read more

  • A Series of Fortunate Events

    On Wednesday, I found time to sneak over to the first formal Open Source / LibTech Chicas meetup coordinated by Sandra of OpenITP and some other ladies. I was really glad that they got this together since last year on the heels of AdaCamp, I’d tried to get a women in open source meetup going Read more

  • Write/Speak/Code

    I’ll be speaking at Write/Speak/Code, the “action-oriented, professional development conference for women developers by women developers”, taking place at Pace University here in NYC June 20-22, 2013 . I’m not a developer and for that reason, I was at first hesitant to speak…I even turned it down at first (!), but I soon realized that Read more

  • Status of Women in (FLOSS) Technology in Africa

    Just came across this great conversation between Dorothy Gordon, Director-General, AITI-KACE (Advances Information Technology Institute) Kofi Annan Centre of Excellent in ICT and Council Member of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) and Seun Ojedeji, Council member and CTO of FOSSFA and Federal University Oye-Ekiti (Ghana). It’s long but humorous and Read more

  • Resources for Girls Who Want to Code

    I’m on the Park Slope Parents Tech list, which is a listserve for Brooklyn parents who work in tech. Recently a mom sent this question to the list: I am not in the techfield and hope you don’t mind the intrusion of this message … My daughter is studying Video Game Design in college and having Read more

  • About Me

    Hi! I’m Camille. I am a wife, a mother, a repatriated New Yorker and an ex-expat (did 3.5 years in Slovenia). In the past few years, I’ve developed a passion for and commitment to free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) and free culture.  In that time, I’ve worked at Question Copyright.org, FLOSS Manuals Foundation, and Read more