Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-25 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Hi Hanna, everyone, Thank you Hanna for posting this question. I am actually one of the two researchers. I am working on a European Commission funded project called FLOSSPOLS (http://flosspols.org/) which in part looks at the question of gender and free / open source software. I am mainly usin

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-26 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Hi Greg, Vanuxem Grégory schrieb: I am aware of other SF authors, often women, who create female heroes that do not reproduce the current and conservative ideas about man/women relationships. Ursula Le Guin is certainly one of them who leaves gender mutual and open. There is also thi

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-26 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Hi, Akkana Peck schrieb: A TV show or movie isn't very representative of printed literature. I expect you'll find that if you survey TV shows or movies in genres other than SF, you'll find the same stereotypes. Sure. I am not too much into TV in general, but I would probably assume that TV

Re: Another "Women in Open Source" Session

2005-07-22 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Dear all, Certainly I would want to have a tape run as well. Though we will have to make sure that all of the other speakers are fine with that, too. Bernhard Danese Cooper wrote: I will definitely ask whether I can get a video. Usually they only tape the "popular" sessions...we'll have to

Re: Another "Women in Open Source" Session

2005-08-12 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Hey, Here are links the largest surveys on free software developers in 2001/2002: a) Widi survey carried out by the Technical University of Berlin in 2001 with 1.1 % women online on http://widi.berlios.de/paper/study.html b) FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) developers´ survey undertake

Re: Another "Women in Open Source" Session

2005-08-12 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Thanks, Hannah, for adding FLOSS Asia and FLOSS US to it. I forgot. B. Hanna M. Wallach schrieb: As I understand it, the number is borne out in several studies. The number comes from the 2002, 2003 and 2004 FLOSS surveys, which took place in Maastricht [1]_, the US [2]_ and Asia [3]_, re

Re: Another "Women in Open Source" Session

2005-08-17 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Em Sex, 2005-08-12 às 18:20 +0200, Jutta Wrage escreveu: Am 12.08.2005 um 13:56 schrieb Gustavo Noronha Silva: and witnessed some negative reaction to this study on the local linuxchix group. Did they think, the number was wrong? Or what was the neg

Re: adding gender field on debian developer's database (from debian-devel)

2005-08-17 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Christian Perrier wrote: And, as Erinn already stated, the intent "behind" the proposal was just having a way to get statistical data, in a more precise way than just counting people we "know" are women. There is no need to attach responses to the single people. One could gather data and the

closure of flosspols survey on knowledge and gender

2005-11-15 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Hello Debian Women, A couple of months ago the universities of Maastricht and Cambridge started a survey on knowledge and gender among the free / libre / open source software participants. We have now more than 1500 participants and will close the phase of data collection by Thursday, the 17.1

Re: closure of flosspols survey on knowledge and gender

2005-11-15 Thread Bernhard Krieger
, Bernhard Odile Bénassy schrieb: On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:34:49 +0100 Bernhard Krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Debian Women, A couple of months ago the universities of Maastricht and Cambridge started a survey on knowledge and gender among the free / libre / open source so

report on gender and free / libre / open source software

2006-05-13 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Dear all, Over the last two years many of you have provided me with lots of support for my research on gender and free / libre / open source software, either by taking part in our survey, by talking to me, or by sending me hints and links. Also the presentations and discussions of many debian

From India: Women geeks bag top two software contest prizes

2006-07-17 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Not directly related to Debian, but I thought this might be of interest. http://www.dailyindia.com/show/42680.php/Women_geeks_bag_top_two_software_contest_prizes -b -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Google Anita Borg Scholarship 2007]

2006-12-19 Thread Bernhard Krieger
just received this call. this maybe of interest to somebody on the list or it would be great if you could forward this to potential candidates. thanks, bernhard -- Anita Borg (1949 - 2003) devoted her adult life to revolutionising the way we think about technology and dismantling b

Re: fwd: [IP] It's arrived: the feminisation of the net

2007-08-24 Thread Bernhard Krieger
hi martin, thanks for that. martin f krafft wrote: One significant trend that stands out is an apparent feminisation of the internet. "Ever since it kicked off in the early 90s the web has been male-dominated. For the first time this year women are spending more time on the internet than me