OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd

On to the wider topic. There are a number of topics that you should not discuss in the course of a profitable evening: politics, religion, free software licenses, and perhaps one has to add "women in open source software" into that set. We can't talk unemotionally about politics and religion, and we aren't lawyers and don't understand licenses, and I can't contribute to a discussion about women without saying something people here would gladly kill(file) me for.

Lately I have been lamenting the emphasis on the "community" part of the open source community, as I'm more of a "source" sort of person. I love code and coding, and I keep on stubbornly believing that if we could just ignore our personalities and get back to coding we could do great things.