Yet another male perspective on women in free software [LWN.net]

Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Posted Oct 4, 2007 20:07 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Yet another male perspective on women in free software by lysse
Parent article: Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Yes, we have. The mass resurgence, on the global political scene, of ultra-reactionary fascist thinking has led to a commensurate erosion of respect for women, racial minorities, religious diversity, and in general everybody who is different from "the norm" in the country in question. It's especially bad right now in the US and in the Muslim world, but it's by no means confined to those places.

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Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Posted Oct 17, 2007 17:41 UTC (Wed) by einhverfr (guest, #44407) [Link]

The simple solution is to find a way to show who has been overtaken by such thinking that
serves nobody.

I have found that most of the jerks who mismanage software communities are also sexist.  The
problem is not what we as a society have regressed to but rather the fact that we give some
people way too much power.

I think that someone to start rating open source communities in terms of things like how
welcome women feel in the communities.