Hi! I am wondering if anyone are going to FOSDEM (http://www.fosdem.org/) next weekend?
I am a M.Sc. student of Informatics, starting on my dissertation in January. I am going to write about why there are so few female open source developers. According to the FLOSS surveys, and through my own study of activity in developers mailing lists, there are only about 1.5-2% women, which is far from the 10-20-30% in the "industry" (it's hard to find accurate numbers there, since "developer" isn't defined by statisticians). I will also try to find out if and perhaps why gender matters in open source development. The case I will study for my dissertation will probably be Debian Linux (because it has a rather clear definition of developers, and because it's a big project). At FOSDEM I have no plans about giving a talk or anything like that, but it would be very nice to talk to some women at the conference about this issue - why you are at the conference, why you became a developer, if and when you considered youself a developer etc. I don't plan to make any formal interviews or anything like that, I thought more along "meet in a nice pub and have some beer and chat". I am arriving on Friday morning, and plan to spend the day doing..very little :) If some of you are there already on Friday, it would be nice to meet. I only have one requirement: I don't want to eat nor drink too close to Grand Place :-P (This goes for any meal and most beer.) (I am hanging on #debian-women, too, even though I am not active much of the time. Feel free to leave a message for me if I don't look awake or present.) Magni aka Naima :) -- http://magni.onsoien.no/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
