Amazing Women of History

I promised to write about how I started to understand the power of the Free Culture License and why we should use it. But somehow lately I am always too busy to sit down and write about this important topic. The good news is, I actually already did!

I wrote quite a few pitches for the One Spark Berlin Crowdfunding Festival and one of the first, was mostly about this topic. So I will share it with you:

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Hi, Thanks so much for coming and giving me a chance to talk to you.

Since we are at a crowdfunding festival you probably already know that collaborating and making something happen together feels awesome. But what about sharing?

I love creative commons, but until recently I never used a Free Culture License.

We had a wonderful time at One Spark Berlin - Europe's first Crowdfunding Festival! It was a lot of fun and we had so much great feedback and interesting conversations. We also made the 3rd place in the Art Category, yeah! And that gives us lots of motivation to keep going with this project and think about all the interesting ideas to find more supporters others told us about. We still and more than ever want to see the project grow into the community we dream about.

Hypatia, Ancient Alexandria’s Great Female Scholar

Dear friends of Amazing Women of History,

I am getting ready for travelling to Berlin to present the project at  One Spark Berlin on Saturday! I am nervous and excited and trying to get everything ready. My Pitch still needs some polishing, and that's why I don't have time to post the remix resources for Hypatia. But I will as soon as I get back home.

Britain's Mary Anning (1799 -- 1847) has been called the "greatest fossil-hunter who ever lived.

One Spark Berlin is already happening next saturday, and I am all busy and nervous practicing my pitch. I didn't have much time to gather many links about Mary Anning, but I found this really nice lecture about her:

Palaeontology with Emily: History of Women in Palaeontology

Mary Anning on wikipedia

I didn't even manage to make a Gif, but maybe you can come up with something nice about her.

If you think there are inherent sex differences we can not change anything about, please read Cordelia Fine: Let’s say good-bye to the straw-feminist. And, while she’s leaving, let’s also close the door behind her antithesis, the value-free mouthpiece of scientific facts  first.

Young Boy with Whip, ca. 1840

Yesterday I came home from a short trip to see my family. It was nice but there was one thing that really made me sad.

"Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad." bio

Free Colouring page:

Here is another transparent Png you can use for creating:

It seems like in the US, Harriet Tubman's story is known quite well, because a lot of children learn about her in school. But I had never heard of her before. She was an incredibly courageous woman and you can find out more about her at wikipedia.

Ada Lovelace: the short version

- Wrote the world's first computer program in 1843

- Lord Byron's daughter 

- Died age 36 after painful illnesses 

- If she'd lived, maybe the computer age would have started in 1850, not 1950

Taken from the first slide of Valerie Aurora's wonderful Talk: 

Rebooting the Ada Lovelace Mythos

It's super interesting and I highly recommend watching.

Learned a lot about Ada, I didn't know before.

Free colouring Page:

Make your own GIF resources below.

Today I am in a hurry, and have no time to compile a list of links for you.

So I hope you find out more about Kassia on your own.

If you find great links please let me know in the comments.

wiki:

"Kassia (Greek: Κασσιανή Kassiani; 805/810 - before 865) was a Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer.

"Tereshkova’s mission was to orbit the earth for 24 hours and to conduct a number of tests on herself to collect data on the female body’s reaction to spaceflight. Soon after launch when she settled into orbit Tereshkova realised that the spacecraft was moving away from Earth, rather than heading towards it. She quickly reported the error to ground control, which then provided a new landing algorithm. However, this meant that her mission was extended to 2 days 22 hours and 50 minutes.