On 28/08/2008, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Much relates to necessity and opportunity. As most management is male, then > there will be fewer opportunities given to women. But I know several women > working in IT, and everyone I know uses computers to some extent. I am the > only person I know using Ubuntu- does the very concept 'open source' > smack of blokishness and nerdimen? Is it all a question of marketing? > Rather than anything to do with how men and women respond to computer > technology?
Well said! Those are some interesting questions. I think with so few women currently in free/open source software then it's bound to have a 'blokishness' feel about it. I wonder if with the increase in popularity of firefox and umpcs with linux, whether the 'nerdiness' feel is going though? I certainly think that 'marketing' of a sort has a lot to do with it. If you were to attend a local LUG or other linux event that was 50% female would it start feeling less 'blokish' to you or do you think more would need to be done? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
