Signal boost: academic in search of DW devs to interview

Related to my Why I think Dreamwidth is a special Free/Libre Open Source Software Development Environment entry, and already linked from the comments there: marcelle42 is writing a paper and looking for Dreamwidth developers:
http://marcelle42.dreamwidth.org/525931.html

Since there have been recent upsets with academics barging into fandom, and this is on the fringes, I feel it vaguely necessary for me to offer reassurance: marcelle42/marcelle42 has been around and about in DW volunteer circles forever, and prior to that in LJ volunteer circles. She is known to me, and she is solid. If we were local we would probably be drinking buddies or something.

She is looking to interview DW devs (and possibly other people familiar with DW's development culture) to learn about it, in order to attempt to determine what it is about Dreamwidth development that either attracts female developers, or (heh) does not repel female developers.

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11:53 PM 4/5/2010
Via my cousin, omg what is this:
http://gay.fleshbot.com/5505952/this-is-the-gayest-thing-weve-ever-seen?skyline=true&s=i

12:21 AM 4/7/2010
Things you should probably know about sithjawa and me: we will occasionally shout "BANTAM HENS BANTAM HENS BANTAM HENS" at each other, completely without warning or provocation.

2:35 PM 4/7/2010
I have been having bad problems with ear-noise for the past day or so. I hope it settles down. (All the little background sounds are really loud, and when MissKat called, I got distortion when she talked. I could hear her just fine, but there was speakerphone-like ringing *around* it.) Am thinking part of it may be related to sleep-dep.

Also, reading Peter Morwood's The Dragon Lord, and unexpected Anne McCaffrey is unexpected!

1:20 AM 4/8/2010
Maybe I'm just having too much white noise around me. Too much, too loud.

4:38 AM 4/9/2010
Delays on BART "due to a civil disturbance" does sound ominous. I wonder if I'll hear what happened.

Also, desktop just unbooted itself. D:

9:39 AM 4/10/2010
Last night's fun: dinner with my aunt, crocheting, carrot cake, Mythbusters, my cousin showing off his Rugged Alaskan Man Beard and the midriff-baring steampunk shirt he's to be wearing to kestrelct's wedding today.

11:38 AM 4/10/2010
My ear-noise seems to be doing better. So far today: 2 cups of coffee. There was a whole little container of it that I made; I'll see if I want some later on. Didn't get enough sleep to want to drive in traffic or face up to crowds. Aunt may be Up for Stuff later. (So, I, like, went to bed at 3, turned off the light at 4, and then at 6:30, pop pop, there I was awake; listening to my cravings, apparently coffee (not soda, but coffee, which I don't have that often) was on the list. So here I am awake.) Meanwhile, I just discovered that my cellphone's Driving Mode is supposed to recite any calling number aloud to me, which is apparently just what I wanted for when I am In Bed, Dammit, with my headset, but my phone is on the other side of the room.

I earwormed Ursie: http://earwormhole.dreamwidth.org/18782.html

2:14 PM 4/10/2010
I was going to say something but I forgot what it was.
Oh! I remembered. When I eventually get published (and it is on the List, remember!) I may be one of those Crazy Cranky Authors who Has Weird Thoughts on Fanfiction.
My particular Crazy Position on Fanfiction is likely to be "Sure, write all you want, but IT'S ALL AU. ALL OF IT."

8:13 PM 4/10/2010
I might be awake. Then again, I might not. I hate my sleep schedule.

9:42 AM 4/11/2010
I seem to be awake yet again. It's also possible (she says after having read half the internet) that the head-buzzing of a few days ago, which did resemble high-blood-pressure side effects, was in fact due to a drug interaction between St. John's Wort and a too-ripe avocado.

5 tweets for 2010-4-11

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Sunday, 0033: FISH OF AN ANGRY COD
• Sunday, 0528: RT @semanticist: I believe this may be relevant to @azurelunatic's interests (Mythbusters, in Lego): http://www.brothers-brick.com/2010/04/08/i-reject-your-reality-and-substitute-my-own/
• Sunday, 0854: Looks like it's starting to rain! <3
• Sunday, 0855: @cassieclare My friend Denise raves about Scrivener and its version control; it's the #1 reason why I'm considering a mac next time.
• Sunday, 1132: @donttrythis It's a shiny fun toy! Why are people harshing your squee?

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