Fernanda G. Weiden

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Fernanda G. Weiden at Latinoware 2008, Fórum do Gnome. Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil

Fernanda G. Weiden is a free software advocate who has worked for Debian, Google and Facebook.

Personal life[]

Fernanda Weiden was raised in Porto Alegre, Brazil.[1] She is married with one child. She moved to Europe in 2019.[2]

Career[]

Fernanda Weiden became involved with the Free software movement in 1997 and then became an advocate for free software.[3][1] In June 2003, Fernanda Weiden and Loimar Vianna founded Projeto Software Livre Mulheres.[4][5] She is an example of cyberfeminism, along with developers such as Alice Wu and .[6][dubious – discuss]

Weiden was a sponsored Debian contributor;[3][7] she was a member of Debian Women and participated until 2011.[8][9] In 2004, she started a thread complaining about the prospective package hot-babe, which featured drawings of a girl undressing.[10][11]

On 16 September 2006, she participated in two panels at Wizards of OS 4 in Berlin; Weiden was one of the speakers in The Future of Free Software, together with Atul Chitnis and Federico Heinz.[12][13] The previous day, Larry Sanger announced Citizendium;[14] She was interviewed about the open source situation in Latin America.[1]

In FISL 12, Weiden managed a course for women about system administration.[15] In FISL 15, she talked about failures in large-scale systems.[16]

Weiden worked for six years at Google and then moved to Facebook, where she became director of engineering and production. After seven years at Facebook, she joined Brazilian company Unico.[2] In September 2021, Weiden was promoted to the board of Unico, after previously being vice-president of engineering.[17]

Selected works[]

  • Oliva, Alexandre; Weiden, Fernanda G. (2006). "DRM: Defectis Repleta Machina". Com Ciência.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Deterding, Sebastian (2006-12-01). "'Microsoft loves piracy'". Federal Agency for Civic Education. Archived from the original on 2014-12-02. Retrieved 2014-11-22.
  2. ^ a b Ingizza, Carolina (18 September 2021). "Unico: Ex-VP de engenharia assume como 1ª mulher no conselho do unicórnio". Exame (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Fernanda G. Weiden". Debian. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  4. ^ "Women in Free Software, by Fernanda G. Weiden". Groklaw. Pamela Jones. 2005-09-12. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-21.
  5. ^ "Quem somos?" (in Portuguese). Projeto Software Livre Mulheres. Archived from the original on 2004-10-14. Retrieved 2014-11-21.
  6. ^ Bruns, Karin (2007). Reader Neue Medien: Texte zur digitalen Kultur und Kommunikation (in German). transcript Verlag. p. 234. ISBN 978-3-89942-339-6. Retrieved 2014-11-19.
  7. ^ "ITP: gnome-doc-utils -- utilities for working with GNOME documentation". Debian BTS. 2004-11-21. Archived from the original on 2017-10-31. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  8. ^ "Contact". Debian. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  9. ^ "debian-women May 2011 by thread". Debian. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  10. ^ Marson, Ingrid (2004-12-14). "Debian group encourages women developers". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
  11. ^ Byfield, Bruce (2005-01-07). "Hot Babe and Debian: A test case for community standards in free software". Linux.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2014-11-22.
  12. ^ "Brazil, the Free Culture Nation". Wizards of OS. Archived from the original on 2014-07-12. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
  13. ^ WOS4: The Future Of Free Software (Video). Wizards of OS. 2006-09-16. Retrieved 2014-11-24 – via Internet Archive.
  14. ^ Quality Management in Free Content. Wizards of OS. 2006-09-15. Event occurs at 63:35. Retrieved 2014-11-26.
  15. ^ "4Linux e Debian Women ministrarão curso inicial de administração de sistemas para meninas no FISL" (in Portuguese). . 2011-06-13. Archived from the original on 2015-07-26. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  16. ^ Santana, Paulo (2014-05-07). "Especialista ensina lições valiosas para evitar falhas em sistemas em larga escala" (in Portuguese). Associação Software Livre. Archived from the original on 2014-08-10. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  17. ^ Redação (23 September 2021). "Fernanda Weiden assume cadeira no Conselho de Administração da unico". ERP. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

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