Ruth Suehle

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Raleigh, NC

Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager for Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team. She's co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O'Reilly, December 2013) and a senior editor at GeekMom, a site for those who find their joy in both geekery and parenting. She's a maker at heart who is often behind a sewing machine creating costumes, rolling fondant for an excessively large cake, or looking for the next great DIY project.

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Authored Content

FLL World Festival photo by Flickr user bnewendorp

Lego could have encouraged STEM education for girls--but launched the Friends line instead

There's been some outrage over the new Lego Friends line, intended to bring more girls into the addictive world of Lego building. Initially, I felt it was a fair extension of…

Ginormous losses from NPE software patent lawsuits

Crushed innovation: When patent lawyers switch to NPEs

When well-known, richly compensated patent lawyers switch from representing world-class tech companies to servicing "non-practicing entities," something's up. Could the…

Steam rumors are flying again, but Desura beat them to open source

The Desura game client is not only available for open-source-loving players, but also now for developers. They've released the client on Github as Desurium under GPL v3…

SOPA/PIPA protestors finally heard; votes delayed indefinitely

After Wednesday's massive online protest, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced on Twitter that Tuesday's vote on the Protect IP Act (PIPA) will be delayed. House…

Did the SOPA blackout work? (And was it really a blackout?)

Yesterday I posted screenshots of 127 websites that “blacked out” to protest the SOPA and PIPA legislation before the US Congress. Another site I came across reported that 7…

January 18 captured: A SOPA blackout gallery

I'll be updating this post throughout the day with more images of sites that have joined the SOPA blackout. Leave a comment with any site you'd like to be added to the gallery…

Authored Comments

suehle

16 Jan 2012

Reddit, Cheezburger, and Anonymous will go black Jan. 18 to protest SOPA

I was working on that when I discovered a few other collaborative lists that were being kept up-to-date, so I added the links to those.

suehle

29 Dec 2011

Map of open source conferences and events

We're anything but discriminatory. But I happen to be based in the US, and thus most of the conferences I hear about are as well. If you know of good ones we should add to the map, please list links to them