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Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really??Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really??Posted Aug 27, 2009 19:41 UTC (Thu) by zrusilla (guest, #60475)In reply to: Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really?? by BrucePerens Parent article: FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software
If you registered for a YAPC::NA in the past few years through ACT and paid online, you can thank me. I wrote the gateway with TPF's payment processor. On my own time. For free.
I attend Perl Monger meetings, gave lightning talks at YAPC and OSCON, read copiously, expand my skills on the job, take classes, and dispense advice to fellow geeks of any sex. What I don't spend my free time doing is butting heads to establish alpha geekdom on IRC. That might explain why you've never heard of me.
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Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really?? Posted Aug 27, 2009 19:51 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] If I don't know you, it is because I am not in the Perl community. I hate IRC because so many people type slowly that I'd rather get them on a telephone and get it over with. But I was very conscious of who the women were in the Debian community, and disappointed when it turned out that some were not really women.
Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really?? Posted Aug 27, 2009 20:19 UTC (Thu) by Skud (guest, #59840) [Link]
So you're saying that your experience is limited and you have no particular knowledge of women in the wider open source community unless you personally know them (and maybe not even then). Gotcha.
Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really?? Posted Aug 27, 2009 21:46 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] No, not at all. She implied that I did not know her because she doesn't participate in male battles on IRC. That was sort of a smear (although to be fair I'm not sure she meant it as one) and I felt it necessary to point out that I don't even like IRC.You went and tweeted that I'd said women don't exist in Open Source? That's sort of inaccurate, isn't it?
Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really?? Posted Aug 27, 2009 20:42 UTC (Thu) by garethgreenaway (guest, #60483) [Link]
I'm curious what these "women" turned out to be and why that was disappointing? At the end of the day what does someone's gender or perceived gender have to do with their role or contributions to a community?
Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really?? Posted Aug 27, 2009 20:52 UTC (Thu) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link]
Batten down the hatches! This teapot's in for a stormy night!
Women don't have the same passion for open source men do? Really?? Posted Aug 27, 2009 22:24 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] Men using their wife or girlfriend's email account and not correcting us when we responded to them using the wife or girlfriend's name. For months.
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