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'''Alex Bayley''', best known as '''Skud''' in online and technology circles, has been involved in open source and more recently open culture, data and similar areas as a open source developer, advocate, and community manager. In the past she has been active in the Linux, Perl, and Freebase communities and a number of other projects. In recent years she has disassociated herself from the open source community, preferring to refer to her area of interest as "open stuff".<ref>http://infotrope.net/2011/01/28/why-im-not-an-open-source-person/</ref>
 
 
In 2011, she [http://infotrope.net/2011/05/18/the-plan/ quit full time work in the IT/tech industry], planning to study sound engineering.
 
 
== Technical ==
 
 
From the late 1990s to 2007 Skud was an active Perl developer, employed mostly as a backend website (LAMP) developer for various employers and working on open source projects as a sideline. She wrote [http://search.cpan.org/~skud/ a number Perl modules], including WWW::Automate, the foundation for the very popular [http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/ WWW::Mechanize]. She is the founder of Melbourne.pm and the originator of the Perl Survey.
 
 
Skud worked on open data and open source projects for [http://freebase.com/ Freebase], and was employed by Metaweb and subsequently Google as the Freebase community manager for four years.
 
 
In 2011, she founded the [http://saveaussiemusic.org/ Save Australian Music] project, an attempt to use crowdsourcing and techniques/technologies from open source and related movements to increase knowledge of and access to independent and hard-to-find Australian music.
 
 
In 2012 she founded [http://growstuff.org/ Growstuff], a project to build a website for food gardeners to track and share information about their edible gardens.
 
 
== Geek Feminism and other activism ==
 
 
Skud is the founder of both the Geek Feminism wiki (in 2008) and [[Geek Feminism blog]] (in 2009).
 
 
In 2009, she spoke widely at a number of [[Open source]] conferences on the subject of women in open source, with a talk called [[Standing out in the crowd]].
 
 
In 2011, as she was leaving employment at Google, she became heavily involved in activism against [Google+ name policy debates|Google+'s so-called "real names" policy] and ensuing [[Nymwars]], and founded the website My Name Is Me (now defunct, formerly at http://my.nameis.me/) to advocate for the wide variety of people who have legitimate needs for [[Pseudonymity]].
 
 
Since 2010, she has served on the advisory board of the [[Ada Initiative]].
 
 
==Former name==
 
 
Until 2011, when she changed her name to Alex Bayley, Skud was sometimes also known by her former name "Kirrily Robert".<ref>http://infotrope.net/2011/09/20/announcement-i%E2%80%99ve-changed-my-name-to-alex-bayley/</ref>
 
 
== References ==
 
 
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== Links ==
 
 
* [http://infotrope.net/bio/ Professional bio]
 
* [http://infotrope.net/blog/ Personal blog]
 
 
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[[Category:Women in Open Source]]
 
[[Category:People in women's outreach]]
 

Latest revision as of 21:43, 23 November 2018


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