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Jon, you forgot a link...Jon, you forgot a link...Posted Oct 4, 2007 16:09 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (guest, #774)In reply to: Jon, you forgot a link... by kena Parent article: Yet another male perspective on women in free software
OK, while we're at that, let me have some math fun (or do some fun math?). When looking around Val Henson's page [1], I noticed a talk [2] "Women and the Culture of Free Software: A Study". Let's have a look at p.33. WITHIN the community, women get asked on a date about five times more than men. However, on p.3 we find that men outnumber women by a factor of 65 WITHIN the SAME community. What gives? That girls actually flirt ten times harder! ;-)
[1] <http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/>
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Jon, you forgot a link... Posted Oct 17, 2007 18:28 UTC (Wed) by einhverfr (guest, #44407) [Link] Val's material is well written an argued. And I think it applies to a large subset of Free Software. There are, however, a few points I would make (interestingly the gender division in LedgerSMB looks a lot more like Val's diagram of the proprietary software world, so I guess our project can be proud :-) ). 1: Dysfunctional communities should be abandoned anyway. We are not coding in dark rooms all alone. The community is a community and includes social aspects. We will all be more successful if we focus on that issue. 2: I suspect that there is also an OCD component to being a great hacker, and that societal issues may influence the target of the obsessions (cleanliness vs security vs math vs software engineering). THis is beyond what we can address as a community. 3: Our communities should be broader than the obsessive software engineering types. People should feel welcome to contribute in whatever way advances everyone.
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