Today the Ada Initiative announced that the non-profit will be shutting down in mid-October. Founded in 2011, the Ada Initiative is a non-profit feminist organization created to help improve open source culture and build a more inviting, productive, safe environment for women. In this interview, the co-founders look back at the organization’s successes, and the work that still needs to be done.
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Canonical is working on multiple projects at the same time, and it’s often difficult to understand their plans, but Director of Product Strategy Engineering Olli Ries has shed some light on how their inner workings are structured and how things are evolving, from the inside out.
Users know that there is Ubuntu and a number of official flavors out there, but that’s not everything in the ecosystem, as Canonical is currently working on other stuff than just the Ubuntu desktop … (read more)
The GNOME Project released the fifth maintenance release of the stable GNOME Software package manager application for the GNOME 3.16 desktop environment, a version that fixes seven issues.
According to the raw changelog, which we have attached at the end of the article for reference, GNOME Software 3.16.5 now displays the progress of the installation of new packages, and adds multiple improvements to featured app banners.
“With this delivery, the DEEP consortium can leverage a supercomputer with a peak performance of 505 TFlop/s and an efficiency of over 3 GFlop/s per Watt. The Eurotech hot water cooling solution allows for additional permanent gains in energy efficiency at data centre level as it guarantees year-round free cooling in all climate zones. The system includes a matching innovative software stack, and six carefully selected grand challenge simulation applications have been optimized to show the full performance potential of the system.”
If you play video games, you’ve probably seen the effects of Autodesk’s work. Autodesk owns the Maya and 3ds Max modeling software, the Scaleform rendering engine, and a variety of animation and texture-making tools. But the meat of the game will (usually) be made in an engine like Unity or Unreal, both of which have spent years courting developers with low prices and approachable tools. On August 19th, though, they’ll see a new competitor: Autodesk’s own engine, called Stingray.
Stingray was first announced in March, but it’s technically existed for several years as an engine called Bitsquid, which Autodesk acquired in 2014. Bitsquid is behind, among a handful of other games, chaotic cooperative shooter Helldivers. The core of…
Patricia Torvalds isn’t the Torvalds name that pops up in Linux and open source circles. Yet.
At 18, Patricia is a feminist with a growing list of tech achievements, open source industry experience, and her sights set on diving into her freshman year of college at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. She works for Puppet Labs in Portland, Oregon, as an intern, but soon she’ll head to Durham, North Carolina, to start the fall semester of college.
In this exclusive interview, Patricia explains what got her interested in computer science and engineering (spoiler alert: it wasn’t her father), what her high school did “right” with teaching tech, the important role feminism plays in her life, and her thoughts on the lack of diversity in technology.
