This is an archive of our press mentions, most recent first.
2015
- 2015-08-05: The Register, Lights out for Ada Initiative – Women’s Group Closing Shop
- 2015-08-04: Women in the World, Ada Initiative to close its doors
- 2015-08-04: The Daily Dot, Groundbreaking nonprofit for women in tech, the Ada Initiative, to shut down
- 2015-08-04: The Mary Sue, The Ada Initiative Shuts Down, but Its Programs Will Be Open Source
- 2015-08-04: Opensource, Ada Initiative organization to end, but its work will continue
- 2015-08-04: Motherboard, The Ada Initiative, a Women in Tech Non-Profit, Is Shutting Down
- 2015-04-11: Autostraddle, Beyond Storytelling: Actionable Ways to Help with Tech’s “Woman Problem”
- 2015-03-08: The Guardian, Silicon Valley is Cool and Powerful. But Where are the Women?
- 2015-03-08: Impose Magazine, An Artful Response to Wikipedia’s Gender Gap: Art+Feminism’s 2015 Edit-a-Thon
2014
- 2014-12-23: PRI, Meet the Most Famous Woman in Computing You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
- 2014-11-14: Wikimedia blog, How to Get the Wikimedia Foundation to Fund Your International Gathering
- 2014-10-29: USENIX, LISA14 Workshop Leaders Interview
- 2014-10-25: Gigaom, Why Companies That Rely on Open-Source Projects Must Insist on a Strong, Enforceable Code of Conduct
- 2014-10-01: Glamour Magazine, Secrets of Silicon Valley (That Only Women Know)
- 2014-09-30: Opensource.com, Learn How to Support Women in Open Source
- 2014-09-25: Google blog, You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: How Our Unconscious Minds Undermine the Workplace
- 2014-06-21: Education Week, Major Ed-Tech Event Overhauls Code of Conduct After Troubling Accusations
- 2014-04-24: ReadWrite, How GitHub Could Restore A Woman-Friendly Environment
- 2014-04-23: CNET, Ada Initiative Bails on GitHub After Sexism Allegations
- 2014-02-24: Model View Culture, Supporting Independent Technology, Organizations and Activists
- 2014-01-02: Library Journal, Why ALA Needs a Code of Conduct
- 2014-01-02: Boing Boing, New Disruptors 56: Doubling Down with Amelia Greenhall
2013
- 2013-12-23: Mission Local, Combating Sexual Harassment in Tech
- 2013-12-01: Convene, Zero Tolerance
- 2013-11-02: Geekscape, Comikaze: Geek Girls: Sexism Within the Geek Subculture Panel
- 2013-10: USENIX ;login:, Valerie Aurora on File Systems and The Ada Initiative, An Interview (PDF)
- 2013-10-24: Los Angeles Times, Sexism a Problem in Silicon Valley, Critics Say
- 2013-10-15: USENIX blog, Impostor Syndrome-Proof Yourself and Your Community
- 2013-10-15: The New Yorker Elements blog, Ada Lovelace, The First Tech Visionary
- 2013-09-12: The Verge, The End of Kindness: Weev and The Cult of The Angry Young Man
- 2013-08-29: The Magazine, Hacker-Activist Community Seems to Leave No Safe Place for Women. Can it Grow Up?
- 2013-07-09: Minnesota Public Radio, Women in Tech Industry Open Up About Male Behavior
- 2013-06-17: ComputerWorld, Guys, Stop Creeping Out Women at Tech Events
- 2013-05-17: Marie Claire, When Geeks Attack
- 2013-03-25: Slate, Adria Richards’ Story Shows How Sexual Harassment Endures in Tech Community
- 2013-01-09: iTWire, LCA’s Media Handler is Also An Enforcer
- 2013-01-08: Huffington Post, Wikipedia To Expand To Developing World, Founder Jimmy Wales Tells Stephen Colbert
2012
- 2012-12-05: SC Magazine, 2012 Luminary Podcast: Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner
- 2012-12-03: SC Magazine, Two Champions For Women in Technology
- 2012-10-30: BoingBoing, Sumana Harihareswara and sf writer Leonard Richardson will match up to $10,000 in donations to the Ada Initiative, funding for women in open culture and free/open source
- 2012-09-08: io9, The Great Geek Sexism Debate
- 2012-08-17: CNET, Sexism and the Single Hacker: Defcon’s Feminist Moment
- 2012-08-15: Schneier on Security, Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)
- 2012-08-15: LWN, Aurora: DEFCON: Why Conference Harassment Matters
- 2012-08-12: Slashdot, Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture?
- 2012-08-10: BlogHer, Why Conference Harassment Matters
- 2012-08-06: Datamation, 10 Women in Tech Who Give Back (featuring Mary Gardiner)
- 2012-08-01: Hacker News, DEFCON: Why Conference Harassment Matters
- 2012-07-27: Opensource.com, AdaCamp DC: A Learning Environment For Women in Open Source
- 2012-07-20: Sydney Morning Herald, Wikipedia’s Woman Problem
- 2012-07-17: National Post, Wikipedia’s Woman Problem
- 2012-07-17: HispanicBusiness.com, Male-Dominated Wikipedia Community Encouraged to Reach Out to Women
- 2012-07-16: Gulf Times, Wikipedia Seeks to Close Reader-Editor Gender Gap
- 2012-07-15: The Verge, Jimmy Wales, Mary Gardiner Address Wikipedia’s Gender Gap at Wikimania Conference
- 2012-07-14: Wikinews, Wikimania 2012 Tackles Diversity Issues
- 2012-07-13: Slate, How Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem
- 2012-04-18: Under the Microscope, How Do You Retain Women in Computer Science?
- 2012-03-30: Wikimedia blog, Ada Initiative’s Quest to Bring Women to Open Source
- 2012-03-27: iTWire, Sydneysider to Give Keynote at Wikimania
- 2012-03-26: Techworld, Gender Issues to Take Centre Stage at Wikimania
- 2012-03-23: Wikinews, Wikimania 2012 Announces Mary Gardiner as Keynote Speaker
- 2012-03-12: Wikipedia Signpost, Women and Wikipedia
- 2012-02-08: Dyn, The Ada Initiative: Supporting Women In Open Technology & Culture
- 2012-01-20: ZDNet podcast featuring Ada Initiative interview
- 2012-01-18: The Mary Sue, Ada Initiative To Help Women In Open Technology And Culture
- 2012-01-18: TechWorld, Breaking Down the Gender Divide in Open Source and Open Culture
- 2012-01-13: iTWire, AdaCamp Set to Kick Off in Melbourne
2011
- 2011-12-13: LWN, An Update on the Ada Initiative
- 2011-12-13: Boing Boing, Donate to the Ada Initiative, support women in free/open culture, get a snazzy Ada Lovelace pendant
- 2011-12-09: iTWire, Ada Initiative to Hold First Camp in Melbourne
- 2011-12-06: linux.com, The Ada Initiative: Looking Back and Looking Forward
- 2011-11-04: TechWorld, Melbourne AdaCamp to Address Open Technology’s Gender Issues
- 2011-10-26: iTWire, Female FOSS Dev Quits Tech Industry Due to Harassment
- 2011-08-08: iTNews, Linux Australia Readies Conference Code of Conduct
- 2011-06-25: LWN, Ada Initiative Fundraising Campaign a Success
- 2011-06-13: ZDNet, Ada Initiative
- 2011-06-01: LWN, Ada Initiative “Seed 100” Donation Campaign Opens
- 2011-06-01: iTWire, Ada Initiative Launches Fundraising Campaign
- 2011-06-01: Ars Technica, A nonprofit called the Ada Initiative… has launched a community funding round until end of June.
- 2011-04-08: Puppet Labs blog, Puppet Labs Supports the Ada Initiative
- 2011-03-17: Organization for Transformative Works, Francesca Coppa Joins Ada Initiative Advisory Board
- 2011-03-09: Network World, 5 Women Leaders Who are Shaping IT
- 2011-02-24: Wikimedia Foundation blog, Sue Gardner Joins Ada Initiative Advisory Board
- 2011-02-24: LWN, The Ada Initiative Announces Advisory Board
- 2011-02-16: LWN, The Ada Initiative Takes a Different Approach
- 2011-02-13: iTWire, Kernel Dev Sets Out on an Uncharted Path
- 2011-02-10: Dreamwidth News, Weekly Update: 10 February 2011
- 2011-02-09: iTWire, Project Launched to Promote Women in FOSS
- 2011-02-09: ITBusinessEdge, New Efforts Seek to Encourage Women to Enter IT
- 2011-02-08: LWN, The Ada Initiative Launches
- 2011-02-08: Linux Magazine, Ada Initiative Launches Today
- 2011-02-08: Geek Feminism blog, Advocacy project for women in open technology and culture: The Ada Initiative
- 2011-02-08: donestech.net, Launching The Ada Initiative
- 2011-02-08: Datamation, Ada Initiative Supports Women in Open Source, Counters Sexism