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Ada Initiative
The Ada Initiative was a non-profit organization that sought to increase women's participation in the free culture movement, open source technology and open culture. The organization was founded in 2011 by Linux kernel developer and open source advocate Valerie Aurora and open source developer and advocate Mary Gardiner (the founder of AussieChix, the largest organization for women in open source in Australia). It is named for Ada Lovelace, the "world's first computer programmer," in honor of whom the Ada programming language is named. In August 2015, the Ada Initiative board announced that the organization would shut down in mid-October, 2015. According to the announcement, the Initiative's executive leadership were looking to move on and the organization was unable to find acceptable replacement leaders.〔(Announcing the shutdown of the Ada Initiative ) August 2015〕
==History==
Valerie Aurora, already an activist for women in open source, joined Mary Gardiner and members of Geek Feminism to develop anti-harassment policies for conferences〔 after Noirin Shirley was sexually assaulted at ApacheCon 2010.〔 Aurora quit her job as a Linux kernel developer at Red Hat and, with Gardiner, founded the Ada Initiative in February 2011.
In 2014, Valerie Aurora announced her intent to step down as executive director of the Ada Initiative, and an executive search committee was formed to find her replacement. Mary Gardiner, deputy executive director, chose not to be a candidate. The committee, headed by Sumana Harihareswara and Mary Gardiner, announced in March 2015 that the Ada Initiative had hired Crystal Huff as the new executive director. 〔(Welcoming Crystal Huff as the new Executive Director of the Ada Initiative ) March 2015, Ada Initiative, adainitiative.org〕 Huff, formerly of Luminoso in Boston, continued to work from Massachusetts in her new role.
In August 2015, the Ada Initiative announced that the organization would close in mid-October, 2015. The announcement described the leadership challenge facing the Initiative: neither co-founder intended to continue as Executive Director. According to the post on the Ada Initiative website: "We felt the likelihood of finding a new ED who could effectively fit into Valerie’s shoes was low. We also considered several other options for continuing the organization, including changing its programs, or becoming volunteer-only. After much deliberation, the board decided to do an orderly shutdown of the Ada Initiative, in which the organization would open source all of our remaining knowledge and expertise in freely reusable and modifiable form. We don’t feel like non-profits need to exist forever. The Ada Initiative did a lot of great work, and we are happy about it."〔 The previous hire of Crystal Huff, announced several months earlier, was not discussed other than to note "that hire didn't work out."〔
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