On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote:
> I think that the evidence is that very few women are engaged in Linux
> as either leaders of a commercial Linux entrepise or as developers in the
> open source community.
that is clear
> What we need is not a list of some of the very few examples we can fish
> out of the occasional development groups, but rather an effort to bring
> female leadership into Open Source development, and into commercial enterprises.
Ok, but why are all the women not contributing? Contributing is quite
easy, and mostly you don't even have to report to anyone. So why isn't any
woman doing it? Ok, two of the girls here said they don't contribute
because they're shy... so maybe knowing the experience of some woman who
already did it could tempt them to contribute.
> If we want to be included in the press hype, then it is important to be
> ubiquitously involved in the open source movement. I really don't think that
> the occasional contribution is enough. We need to be represented in the
> highly visible business and hacker communities.
Of course that's true... so we have to contribute ourselves. I am trying
to do my best, but I really don't think I'll ever write a program that can
be useful :-) I'm trying to contribute with documentation, though
(co-authoring a book on linux as a LAN server, which will be released
under an open source license), and coordinating others' efforts (the hell,
I coordinate a LUG in Italy which has more than 200 people, of which only
3 I can count are female - me included:-) ), but that's not enough.
A thing that we can do is show that it could be done.. and that there are
women who're doing it, and maybe they're also happy :-)
You're right, the list is totally useless, but maybe the people on the
list aren't :-)
E.
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