Timeline of geek feminism

Let's list and track some of the loci of intense Internet discussion in feminism and geek feminism. Please add milestones, mailing list or blog/website/wiki beginnings. Add particular notable controversies and kerfluffles at timeline of incidents.

1977

• First WisCon (feminist Science Fiction convention)

1980s (approximate)

• (Sometime in the 80s or very early 90s) FEM-SF listserv established

1987

• Systers founded by Anita Borg

1988

• Comp.society.women founded

1993

• geekgirl [1]created by rosiex

1996

• (or 1995?) Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Utopia pages begin (later to become feministsf.net)

1998

• (or 1999?) LinuxChix founded by Deb Richardson

2001

• Carl Brandon Society mailing list established

2002

• grrls-only LinuxChix list founded by Valerie Aurora

2003

• Jo Walton pours coke on David Brin's head at Boskone.

2004

• Debian Women founded by Erinn Clark and Amaya Rodrigo Sastre
• Google begins awarding the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

2005

• Girl Geek Dinners started by Sarah Blow in London
• Women@apache.org mailing list founded

2006

• Ubuntu Women founded
• Cultural appropriation discussion, after WisCon
• Sudden rise of Feminist Comics Blogging
• Wikichix founded

2007

• First LinuxChix miniconf at Linux.conf.au
• First WIOS (Women in Open Source) miniconf at SCALE
• First She's Geeky unconference
• An Open Letter to the Open Source Community by Melissa Draper

2008

• http://Geekspeakr.com launched - Directory of women technical speakers
• May:
  • Skud begins the Geek Feminism Wiki (ie, this wiki)

2009

See also 2009 women in FLOSS discussions for a series of discussions in this year.

• January:
  • linux.conf.au's first diversity delegates attend
• April:
  • Open beta of Dreamwidth, a majority-female FLOSS project
• July:
  • Python community diversity list started
  • Standing Out in the Crowd keynote at OSCON
• August: Geek Feminism blog founded
• September:
  • First Diversity in Open Source Workshop at the Ohio LinuxFest
  • FOSS Women planet founded
  • FSF mini-summit on Women in Free Software
  • Women In Free Software mailing list founded
• October:
  • Python Diversity Statement released
  • Google offers diversity scholarships to open source conference attendees (Linux.conf.au, PyCon, ???)
  • Three women win Nobel Prizes
• November:
  • First She's Geeky unconference in Washington D. C.
  • (projected) open beta of the Archive Of Our Own, a majority-female FLOSS project

2010

• January:
  • linux.conf.au: Haecksen miniconf (replacing LinuxChix miniconf), second year of diversity delegates
• June:
  • WikiProject Feminism established on English Wikipedia.
• November:
  • Conference anti-harassment policy developed for Open Source and technical conferences, by Valerie Aurora and others.

2011

• January
  • The Ada Initiative founded.
  • linux.conf.au: Haecksen miniconf

• November
  • Men Call Me Things twitter campaign
    • Marieke Hardy name-and-shame incident

2012

• January
  • The Ada Initiative holds the first AdaCamp
  • linux.conf.au: Haecksen miniconf
• July
  • KC makes the Creeper Move cards for DEFCON

Undated

• Cerise, Iris gaming mag & forums established
• Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) established nationally and at many university campuses
• Women 2.0 founded
• DevChix founded
• Code n Splode founded
• Ada Lovelace movie