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The team mentored several new Open Source contributors in setting up their development environment and helping them submit and merge their first ever pull requests. The container packaging team of Rose, Nisha and Tracy submitted Tern as a “Choose Your Own Adventure” project to the Grace Hopper Celebration – Open Source Day event. In 2016, she was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her many contributions to the field of computing (for more information about Grace Hopper or the Anita B Foundation visit ). Grace also helped create the first compiler for computer languages, and was the first female recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 1991.

Navy and one of the first women to receive a doctorate in mathematics. Who is Grace Hopper?Īccording to the Anita B Foundation, Grace Hopper was a Rear Admiral in the U.S. As part of the planning effort the GHC decided to host a one day, open source focused workshop, Open Source Day and VMware’s open source leaders were there to make it all happen. Anna, part of the GHC Organizing Committee, was highlighted during the event’s kick off presentation for all of her hard work and dedication to the foundation and conference planning. Anna Jung, Nisha Kumar, Rose Judge and Tracy Holmes represented the VMware Open Source Program Office and enthusiastically welcomed all types of newcomers to open source.

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T he celebration results in networking and collaboration between GHC presenters, open source leaders and beginners in the field, introducing active female maintainers to newcomers in a comfortable, judgement free environment.

The Anita B Foundation, host of the Grace Hopper Conference (GHC), strives to reach women at all levels of their technical careers. But the number of technology conferences dedicated to women and growing their skills in the industry are few and far between. Technology conferences happen nearly every day of the week - even during a pandemic.

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