On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, curious wrote:
> http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/02/05/949813140.html
Wow, I couldn't seem to get away from this article all weekend. Every
place I went had a link to it. Not that I was avoiding it but I finally
found some time to read it. And I have one question.
In the third section about integrating women as they are into hackerdom as
they are, I suspect this is allready happening. Or has happened and is
still going on. But this part got me thinking ...
"Female hackers (for some definition of hacker which is not necessarily
tied to "hard" projects) do exist. I know several of them. However, the
geek/hacker community doesn't seem to notice or acknowledge them. I'm not
saying this out of a sense of immature pique at having been overlooked,
but in response to numerous articles on Slashdot and other fora saying, in
effect, "Where are the female geeks?" Every time this occurs, numerous
female geeks and hackers say "Here we are!" and, largely, get ignored or
forgotten by the next time the question is raised."
Maybe we should stop asking `Where are the female geeks?' Is it too early
in the new Open Source/Linux/whatever movement to be taking a tally and
trying to fix something that might be slowly fixing itself allready? I
live in an area where finding another flesh and blood person who is a
hacker is next to impossible to begin with (in my experience, though I'm
trying to change that). I know there are probably hundreds of people
working on things I'll never know about or see, much less hear about.
Maybe I'm willing to let nature take it's course and populate the
`movement' with the right people of the right gender I guess.
> To me the greatist hackers out there are the documenters.... It surprises
> me that orginizations like the Linux Documentation Project aren't given
> more "recog" awards... the list of tasks for "technically minded women"
> are needed... period.. doesn't matter if the person is
> black/white/deaf/blind/male/female/etc..
Agreed.
> A warning to parents conidering raising a hacker.. regardless of gender..
> they will tend to be unballanced through alot of thier life :).. which is
> not nessarly a bad thing.. just be aware you'll have your work cut out for
> ya ;)
Unbalanced? Howso? I have to say that if there is anything *nix/Linux and
all those other hacker-esque activities has taught me, it was balance.
*shrug* Just a point of experience, maybe?
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