Hi, there was an interesting talk about this issue in the last OSCON. You can see it here: http://infotrope.net/blog/2009/07/25/standing-out-in-the-crowd-my-oscon-keynote/
Maybe many of you already saw that article before. And there is this other thread about women and open source: http://lwn.net/Articles/349044/ > Hello everybody, > > this is my first post here, I have been a passive reader for quite a > while though (i'm not a developer, only a user). > > I find womens only tech events interesting and enriching. But I thought > the idea of organizing a tech meeting with only female speakers (but > mixed public) without making a big fuzz about that fact very very > interesting. > It could be an experiment worth trying. Like trying out how it can be > when women in free software development are not an exception any more. > > About feeling excluded, here http://www.genderchangers.org/faq.html is > an answer to the question "why women only" I really like and that may > help Jordi and others to understand. > "why women only? > Imagine you are alone and travelling in a country where you don't know > the language and cultural intricacies. Do you remember how it felt when > you bumped into someone just like yourself? > One of our goals is to get more women involved in technology. The issue > here is inclusion not exculsion." > > nice greetings > ag > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
