Jon, you forgot a link...

Jon, you forgot a link...

Posted Oct 17, 2007 18:28 UTC (Wed) by einhverfr (guest, #44407)
In reply to: Jon, you forgot a link... by evgeny
Parent article: Yet another male perspective on women in free software

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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