Ruth Suehle

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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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The spread of open source at SXSW

If you need evidence of the spread of interest in open source, look to the history of SXSW Interactive schedules. Just between this year and last, the number of talks tagged…

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Open source deals on Cyber Monday

We don't condone shopping when you should be working, but everybody needs a break, right? When you're out shopping for the online deals today, here are a few Cyber Monday…

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Crushed innovation: When patent lawyers switch to NPEs

Mathi, "patent trolls" exist only to pursue monetary gain from a patent portfolio, as opposed to those companies, which outside of how they use their patents, actually have products.

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

You're missing the point entirely. What is "what girls like" and "what boys like"? Why are you making a distinction? Research has proven that that attitude is /exactly/ how girls get pushed to the fringes and neglected in science education.