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Where are the Alpha *Female* Hackers?

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Today is Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating "women excelling in technology." There are plenty of women contributing to free software, but where are the well-known ones that code at a high level, rather than run foundations like Mozilla's Mitchell Baker or GNOME's Stormy Peters? And what can we do to nurture more of them?

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Sander_Marechal ·
Maybe it's name recognition? I find it somewhat ironic that the two names that the article mentions are Mitchell Baker and Stormy Peters. I've seen both names quite regularly but never with a picture and I've never known they were women. I learned that Stormy was a women only recently during Scott's SCALE articles and I never knew Mitchell was a women until this story.

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