Jen Wike Huger

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Raleigh, NC

Jen leads a team of community managers for the Digital Communities team at Red Hat. She lives in Raleigh with her husband and daughters, June and Jewel.

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Top 5 articles of the week on Opensource.com

Top 5: Alternatives to Gmail, the Free Software Foundation today, and more

In this week's Top 5 articles of the week: Alternatives to Gmail, the Free Software Foundation today, how to teach big data to students, the world's first open digital camera…

Largest email group for women in tech teams up with Peace Corps

Systers is the world's largest email community of women in tech. First a little history, from Anita Borg.org: Systers was founded by in 1987 as an email mailing list for women…

Mozilla pays it forward

Mozilla and seven other organizations will be participating in the Grace Hopper Open Source Day codethon taking place during the main conference event, on October 14. Emma…

Top 5: Blender movie, Minecraft alternatives, and more

In this week's Top 5, our best articles of the week are about a new Blender short film, alternatives to Minecraft, back to school with open source, impostor syndrome, and…

Top 5: Linux kernel birthday, Pinrepo, alternatives to Trello, and more

In this week's Top 5 we talk about markup languages, Pinterest's new open source tool, 20 years worth of open source knowledge from Stephen Walli, Happy 24th birthday to the…

Outreachy and the road toward diversity

Diversity has a new full-time ally. Marina Zhurakhinskaya ( zhoo-ra-HEEN-ska-ya) recently won an O'Reilly award for her work in diversity for free and open source software…

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Jen Wike Huger

13 Jan 2014

On Europe's first Code Week with Irish Ambassador Julie Cullen

I love the kids excitement and enthusiasm in the video!

Jen Wike Huger

6 Jan 2014

Teens and their first job: How to get on the path to a happy career

Brooks, thanks for sharing. Another great resource for teaching girls and boys of all ages more about technology and tinkering is hanging out at your local hackerspace. More on this in my upcoming interview with Leslie Hawthorn for Women in Open Source week: 1/20 - 1/24.