Cathy Raymond is perhaps most well known in the FLOSS (extra “s” for software) for being the wife of Eric Raymond. In her own life, she is a lawyer, blogger, and all around geek. She switched her personal machine from Windows 3.1 to Red Hat, and spent some time after that doing community advocacy.
Archive for the ‘Bios’ Category
Cathy Raymond
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Steven Danna and Theresa Smith
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Growing up in a military family, Steven Danna lived all over America. He had a brief childhood stint in Okinawa, Japan. Eventually he landed in Seattle, WA, where he is a graduate student at the University of Washington’s policy school. He is a recreational coder, and regularly considers trying to take this a step further to earn “vacation money.” Steven uses an analytical mind to consider not just how to make his computer work the way he wants it to, but what the FLOS movement means, and can mean, for individuals, groups, and organizations.
Theresa Smith was born and raised in McHenry, Illinois. She moved to Pittsburgh when she was eighteen to go to university, and currently is a student in the University of Washington’s statistics Ph.D. program. Prior to moving to Washington, she was a recreational user of open source software, being especially fond of Tux racer. She is currently thinking of changing her office computer to run Ubuntu. She uses open source type setting and statistics packages. The definition of a casual user, Theresa doesn’t understand why I want to write about her. She has an infinite patience for geeky nonsense she doesn’t care about going on around her.
Steven and Theresa are an engaged couple living in Seattle, Washington. They like cooking, clever television shows, and penguins. It is impossible to really talk about one of them without talking about the other.
Molly Sauter
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Molly Sauter is a Pennsylvania native who has lived on both ends of the state and in Austin, TX, where she worked for Steel Penny Games. Recently accepted into the graduate program at Georgia Tech for Digital Media, she will spend the summer doing research at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Describing herself as “diversified,” she has interests in cooking, copyright law, free culture, games, the internet, produced drawings, tiny houses, and writing. A self-professed geek, Molly can hold her own in a conversation about artificial intelligence with as much energy and intellect as one on Joss Whedon. You can read her blog at oddletters.com.
Biographies
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010I’m going to be doing some brief bios on the people who will be (or are) written about as part of the project. They will be under the “bios” category and will be searchable though tags under “bios,” first names, last names, full names, and common handles.