TY - JOUR T1 - So Are You A Contributor?: Women's Contributions to Linux and Open Source Span Technology and Business JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Amanda McPherson AB - While there are over 60 names on the list of women in open source on the Geek Feminism wiki, there are far more than 60 women making their mark in open source. I work with talented people every day in my role as Vice President of Marketing and Developer Programs at the Linux Foundation, and see first-hand the contributions women make at the technology and business levels. This article presents some of the techniques used by the Linux Foundation to encourage a culture of inclusion and to foster a wide variety of open source contributions. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/264 IS - June 2009 U1 - Linux Foundation Amanda McPherson is a founding management team member of the Linux Foundation and current Vice President, Marketing and Developer Programs. She is responsible for content, web strategy, events, public relations and developer programs, including the Linux Developer Network. Highlights of her work with the Linux Foundation include: defining the initial brand and positioning of the organization, creating the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, and authorizing multiple content pieces, including the "Who Writes the Linux Kernel" whitepaper. She has been involved in open source for the past eight years. Amanda was director of marketing for the Free Standards Group, the certification and standardization authority for Linux. Prior to that, she was Director of Marketing for Covalent Technologies, the leading provider of Apache Web server software. Previously, she served at two of the industry's largest public relations and marketing agencies -- Cunningham Communication and Burson-Marsteller -- where her work was recognized by an industry award from the Public Relations Society of America. She was a core member of the marketing team responsible for the launch of the Java programming language in 1995. A published fiction author, Amanda graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. ER -