Hi Magni, > I am wondering if anyone are going to FOSDEM (http://www.fosdem.org/) > next weekend?
I am! > 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. Wow, that sounds really intersting. I'd really like to find out more about the statistics you've gathered and the FLOSS surveys you mention (as well as your dissertation in general, of course!). In fact, I'm giving a talk about the Debian Women project in the Debian Developers Room on Sunday and would love to include these statistics in my talk, if you're happy with that. > 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'd definitely like to meet and have a chat. Perhaps best to contact me off-list and we can arrange a time/place? I'm arriving on Friday afternoon, and I'll definitely be in Le Roy d'Espagne (on the Grand Place) on Friday night (see http://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2005-February/001907.html) though... > 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.) ... this doesn't satisfy your requirement! :-) All the best, -- hanna m. wallach blog: http://join-the-dots.org/ work: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/hmw26/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
