Gardiner: Remembering Telsa Gwynne

Mary Gardiner has posted a memorial to Telsa Gwynne. "Telsa was also a critical inspiration to me as an activist: in the early 2000s (and still) it was hugely controversial to either believe that open source communities could still work if they were more civil (the entire LinuxChix project was partly an experiment with that), and even more so to insist that they should be. Telsa is the earliest person I can think of who stood up in an open source development community and asked it to change its norms in the direction of civility." Telsa withdrew from our community some years ago, but she will be much missed just the same.

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