On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 10:47:18PM +1100 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> leader's name in vain, but I think Deb falls clearly into the latter
> category, for instance. Two other examples I can think of are Elizabeth
> wossname who is an editor of LWN, and Telsa Gwynne, whose diary is
> extremely popular reading.
On the subject of editors: Marjorie Richardson is the editor of
Linux Journal, too.
And here's an area where there's a huge amount of women:
MUSHes.
I cannot think -why- I didn't think of this earlier. But there's
lots of women involved in MUSHes, and this isn't confined to playing
them, and the occasional wiz-bit. One of the TinyMUSH maintainers
is female: Lydia Leong. I gather that of the 'hardcode' group,
there's lots of women (as I understand it, hard-code is the MUSH
server and soft-code is code that works within the game, which has
a programming language of its own). And people who know this world
better than me tell me that it's always had lots of women in it.
The MUSHing world has a substantial history behind it: it grew out
of MUDs, and I was playing those ten years ago and meeting people
who'd been MUDding for some years before that. It also has a fair
amount of academic research into it, too. I find MUSHes a fascinating
environment, personally. Cool, stimulating, you can let your
imagination run riot, you can play with soft code, you can role-play,
you can just make friends... Also very thought-provoking in a
number of ways.
Given that you need a unix-like machine to run a MUSH on, I'm
really surprised no-one here thought of MUSHes. Or are Linux,
BSD and MUSHes totally separate communities?
I know there's at least one other poster to this list who knows
a damn sight more than me about this: I'll leave it to her to
come up with more reliable numbers :) But I'm sure there's a lot
of women who are very well-known within that community for coding
and running the things.
Telsa
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