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This year for Pride, KDE & GNOME are recognizing and celebrating LGBTQIA+ historic figures and members of our community. For this reason, we will sharing their profiles during this weekend. #QueersInFoss
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Sally Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012, American, Lesbian) She was an American astronaut and physicist, joining NASA in 1978 after going through a tough selection process. In 1983, became the first American woman, the third woman and the first queer person to fly in space. A thread... 🧵@kde
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She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32. Her first mission with the Challenger lasted 6 days, 2 hours, 23 minutes.She was also part of the Challenger mission in 1984 for 8 day flight which was the first mission with two women on board.@kde
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Ride started training for her third mission but it was cancelled after the Challenger disaster. During the investigation she was invited to be part of the presidential commission that investigated the disaster and was key to find the cause.@kde
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After working in NASA for 10 years, she became a physics professor and led 2 outreach programs for NASA. The programs allowed middle school students to request images of the Earth and the Moon.@kde
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Sally had been in private relationships with other women, including children’s science writer Tam O’Shaughnessy, which was only revealed to the world after her death in 2012. Her contributions to not only space exploration, but other fields of science she had a hand in, are still felt today.@kde
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Clara Barkerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_BarkerDr. Barker is a trans woman, engineer, and material scientist. Clara Barker manages the Centre for Applied Superconductivity within the Materials Department in the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on creating thin film high temperature superconductors that could be used a resonators for quantum computing devices.@gnome #QueersInFoss
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Before she came out as Trans, she feared she would be isolated and it would finish her career. However, she was more accepted than anticipated. Unfortunately her experience is not everyone's case in STEM where the lack of role models.@gnome
(DIR) Post #B7rBOrQCx6XWMXnGUq by kde@floss.social
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She works with a youth groups and has helped Oxford City Council run an anti-HBT bullying initiative. She runs several initiatives to support LGBTQA+ visibility and diversity in STEM. In 2018, Baker gave the TEDx talk entitled "Why we need to build trust to create diversity in institutions".@gnome
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Audrey Tang (18 April 1981, Taiwanese, non-binary)They are a politician and free software programmer who served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from Aug 2022 to May 2024.They are the first transgender person and the first non-binary gender official in the top executive cabinet.@kde
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Tang has identified as "post-gender" and accepts "whatever pronoun people want to describe me with online. They are a leader of the Haskell and Perl programming language communities, and is the core member of g0v.@kde
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Initially, she coded in pencil and paper because she didn't have a computer. She began to learn Perl at age 12. By the year 2000, at the age of 19, Tang had already held positions in software companies, and worked in California's Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur.@kde
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Tang initiated and led the Pugs project, a project to implement the Perl 6 language. Tang also made contributions to internationalization and localization efforts for several free software projects.@kde
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During their time in the Taiwanese government, they have fostered initiatives to fight misinformation in social media and provide access to non-windows computers to the administration systems.@kde
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Continuing with what we have informally called our "gayllery", today we move on to actual active KDE and @gnome contributors, starting with...Meet Florian Müllner! (he/him)🏳️🌈 gay GNOME contributor.@fmuellner ...
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Florian started contributing around 2009, as he said if his contribution was a person, it would be aproaching voting age right now. He contributes to gnome-shell, but also mutter, gnome-shell-extensions, polari. In addtion, as he has been around for a while, there's the occasional contribution to other bits and pieces around GNOME (GTK, control-center, gnome-settings-daemon, ...).@gnome @fmuellner
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Florian finds GNOME a great community that welcomed him with open arms (once he dared to make the jump). He found some real friends over time.There is also the mission. Providing a computing platform that is driven by vision and need rather than monetization opportunities and a strive for market domination is as important as it ever was.Last but not least, when GNOME builds an OS "for everyone", that includes him. When GNOME gets better, so does his computing experience.@gnome @fmuellner
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He likes all kinds of physical activity — walking, hiking, riding a bike. During the pandemic, he got hooked on variant sudoku, and it has been part of his daily routine ever since.@gnome @fmuellner [EOF]
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Meet Akseli (they/them, he/him)!They work on a bunch of KDE things, from Plasma to Union, also a lot in KIO and sometimes in Dolphin.@kde @aks
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They are "the evil mastermind behind rounding the corners in our applications and adding window outlines. Currently most busy working on Union, though I do try to fix bugs as much as possible."@kde @aks
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"Somehow (trying to) maintain desktop icons even I do not use desktop icons. Jack-of-all-trades, master of none. I also have my own todo software, KomoDo." They contribute to KDE & FOSS because "I just like to write good software that people want to use."@kde @aks
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"Being able to peek behind the curtain and see the machinery is big part why i like FLOSS in general, too. But in the end for me it's all about making robust software, moving slow and fixing things." Akseli has been an active KDE contributor since 2021/22. @kde @aks
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Other fun facts: "I love videogames, mostly FPS and RPGs. I used to be very good at QuakeLive back in the day (top 50 world-wide in FFA, top 10 in Finland). My favorite games are TES3: Morrowind, anything Quake, EVE Online and X4 Foundations. But I play a lot of different stuff."@kde @aks
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I also like to write stuff in my blog: https://akselmo.dev/Contributions to KomoDo are welcome, if there's anything specific: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/komodoThen you can check my other projects: https://sr.ht/~akselmo/And I have my games too: https://akselmo.itch.io/[EOF]:flag_pansexual: :flag_nonbinary: @kde @aks
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Meet Federico Mena Quintero (he/him --- @federicomena ) a bi/pan @gnome developer.
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He is one of GNOME's founders! 😀 So, he has been around since 1996 or so.@federicomena @gnome
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Federico has contributed to a bunch of modules in GNOME - gnome-libs, gnome-panel, GTK, Midnight Commander, gnome-canvas, Evolution, Nautilus. Currently he maintains librsvg.@federicomena @gnome
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produce software infrastructure for "everyone". In his own words, "It is heartwarming to see this infra get used in countries like mine (Mexico), without having to ask permission or pay megacorps to use their products. And now that we are setting up the infrastructure like Flathub, this should open similar doors to independent app developers."@federicomena @gnome
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As a hobbie, he does hand-tool woodworking and rides a bike for fun!@federicomena @gnome[EOF]
(DIR) Post #B7rBOvqaUy1A5WAOAa by kde@floss.social
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Meet Sam Hewitt (they/them (preferred) he/him (acceptable)) 🏳️🌈, 💛🤍💜🖤He has been contributing to the design of @gnome for many years, He has left his mark on the user interface, experience, icons, and such of many GNOME modules and websites. He joined in 2013 although he has lost track of when he started being more directly involved with GNOME, as he was floating around other projects. 😅...
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He finds important to contribute to GNOME and FLOSS. The fact these communities and projects are independent and driven by the people involved drew him to FLOSS, and GNOME. He believes that we, the passionate nerds who make up the community, make the platforms, apps, and software we use better because we want it to be better for ourselves and our peers.@gnome
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He also thinks FLOSS communities like GNOME, KDE and many others are a vital, moral core in tech space (even more so today). He found them in his formative years and the passion and views of the people in the community he believes did him good and instilled an ethical framework that he has carried ever since, it's important to keep that going and lead by example.@gnome
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He is an enthusiastic player of community-made Classic DOOM maps, that scene shares a scrappy ethos similar to FLOSS spaces that he appreciates, plus it's fun!@gnome
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Meet Kieryn Darkwater (they/them)!They work on Akademy and other community, social, and collaborative events/projects with KDE (like this one!).@kde @bluepupboi
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They contribute to KDE & FOSS because "FLOSS at large has been a part of my life since I was a broke teenager learning how to organise communities. Digital sovereignty and programs that work across platforms without a subscription is crucial to grassroots movements, especially now. KDE in particular is important to me because the community is full of smart, passionate, and kind people who want to make the world a better place."@kde @bluepupboi
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"It's more than tech for tech's sake."Kieryn first got involved with KDE in 2022 at the Akademy infodesk in Barcelona. Other fun facts: I paint for fun, moonlight as a freelance journalist covering christofascism in the US, and was in Season 2 of Shiny Happy People on Amazon Prime.@kde @bluepupboi
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Support their work here: https://mxdarkwater.com/support-the-work/:flag_nonbinary: :flag_transgender: :flag_bisexual: @kde @bluepupboi
(DIR) Post #B7s0eC7lMHlcZnEe0W by gnome@floss.social
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Pride for many is best celebrated with other queer folks, including the many queer people within our large and diverse communities. We also recognize it can be hard to reach out and find other queer people for a lot of people, so to that end KDE and GNOME invite the queer contributors, users, and connoisseurs of FOSS to a joint matrix room to discuss and celebrate FLOSS,
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and the milestones and achievements reached made by queer people in our community, with other queer members of the community. We welcome everyone of all backgrounds, identities and interests relating to FLOSS - we hope to see lots of faces in there soon!The link to the room is: #kde+gnome-pride:matrix.org:flag_nonbinary: :flag_pansexual: :flag_bisexual: :flag_transgender: 🏳️🌈
(DIR) Post #B7s3M1lvPPMV7T38gS by kevinrns@mstdn.social
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@gnome Pride in fact is designed to make non queer people not be bigots. Its not a closed room where lgbt+ people gather to say 'yay we're queer.'That's called a nightclub.Pride is a march through town, it's shows, its festivals, its statements of support, its clothing, its crosswalks, its a giant pride flag at the baseball stadium. Seneca, Selma, Stonewall. Its about rights.
(DIR) Post #B821x9so4zfn7eNADA by tentakigosc@mastodon.social
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@gnome @kde @bluepupboi Clearly such attention seeker(s? lol) might be good at social events