Bad Mojo wrote:
>On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
>> > 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
>>
>> Ah, but is it fixing itself, or are a few people finally seeing fruit
>> in their efforts to encourage other women to keep trying? I don't think
>> it's so fixed that it's not worth hastening the process a little. (Um.
>> Baaad sentence.)
>
>Very good point. I guess I might re-ask my question. To be honest, I'm a
>sociologist at heart and I'm just asking questions because I want to know,
>not because I think it's a bad idea. So take this as devil's advocacy, not
>as an indication of my desire. Could hastening the change do more damage
>than leaving it alone?
I think there's a thin line. Walking it will be interesting :)
>> Whether women are too bothered about attending the big expos is a
>> question that came up on this list before, and I don't think there
>> was any conclusion beyond "Perhaps we aren't so interested in expos
>> and big events".
>
>I hate people, yet I love gatherings, how ironic. ;) Is expo attendance a
>good measure of women involvement? Are there other ways we could measure
>the female-quotient of the FSF/OS movement? Maybe I'm over-analytical, but
>I'm really curious and want to know.
I think we need to send out a snail-mail survey to the wives,
girlfriends, partners, and female friends and workmates of male hackers,
and find out how many of them contribute to the design, debugging and
testing process :)
My honest guess is that that's where a lot of the women in Open Source
are.
K.
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