Valerie Aurora
Filesystems and the Ada Initiative
Linux filesystem work, then changing how conferences behave
Rating
83Impact score
Domains
Linux filesystemsKernel developmentCommunity standards
Scouting report
Worked on Linux filesystems including ext4, ChunkFS and union mounts, and wrote a long-running series on filesystem design for LWN. Co-founded the Ada Initiative, whose example anti-harassment policy was adopted across a large part of the conference circuit and materially changed what open source events tolerate.
Curator’s note
Shipped kernel code, then fixed the conferences that ran on it.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Valerie Aurora by Photographer unknown, commissioned by Valerie Aurora, licensed CC BY 3.0.
Sources
- 01Valerie Aurora en.wikipedia.org
- 02Her LWN filesystem writing lwn.net