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
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
2005
- Girl Geek Dinners started by Sarah Blow in London
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
2009
See also 2009 women in FLOSS discussions for a series of discussions in this year.
- 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
Undated
- Cerise, Iris gaming mag & forums established
- Women 2.0 founded
- DevChix founded
- Code n Splode founded