In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
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>On the subject of editors: Marjorie Richardson is the editor of
>Linux Journal, too.
Cool, noted.
>And here's an area where there's a huge amount of women:
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>MUSHes.
Yup, I agree with the crossover. I think the reason it's not more
apparent is that the MU* community grew in parallel (actually,
considerably ahead of) the Linux/OSS community, and isn't actually
an *offshoot* as such. So they kind of diverged early, in a way.
>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?
Unacknowledged crossover, I'd say.
I'll add another community that has a reasonably visible female
component, which is the Perl community. Although I've got tied up in
"why aren't there more female perl hacker" debates before this, I'll
point out that heaps of the perl mailing lists and user groups are run
by women, and that they're quite vocal online. Among them are Elaine
Ashton (runs Boston.pm and MarsNeedsWomen.pm), Vicky Brown (runs the
FunWithPerl list), Bek Oberin (runs the Perl-AI list), and yours truly
(runs Melbourne.pm, the Mason mailing list, and the perl-trainers list).
And probably others... I lose track :)
K.
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