GNOME and Google reach out to women (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

NewsForge covers GNOME's Women's Summer Outreach Program. "Originally, the proposal was for three women, but after the GNOME Foundation gave thumbs up, Google doubled the funding so that six women could participate. The projects that were accepted are Cecilia Gonzalez Alvarez's work on optimizing Evolution components; Clare So's work to edit MathML expressions in GtkMathView; Fernanda Foertter's gJournaler, a tool for create a virtual library of PDFs; Maria Soler Climent's work to synchronize Tomboy notes; Monia Ghobadi's proposal to integrate GNU Screen with gnome-terminal; and Umran Kamar's project to create an Evince plugin for Mozilla."

to post comments

GNOME and Google reach out to women (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 21, 2006 22:14 UTC (Mon) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link] (1 responses)

I mean this as an honest question, as I haven't worked on many OSS projects outside of small hobby projects that I've done on my own:

In a medium where the person you're interacting with has no discernible sex (unless they tell you), does the sex of the developer make much of a difference?

Considering my own question, it seems like the issue could stem from earlier stages in a geek's development (along the lines of discouragement from programming when first starting out).

Is it that this project is more about creating visible role models for future developers than it is to create immediate change in statistics?

GNOME and Google reach out to women (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 22, 2006 0:18 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

I would believe the answer to that last question would be a 'yes'.

GNOME and Google reach out to women (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 22, 2006 4:28 UTC (Tue) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link] (3 responses)

I'm amazed that nobody has integrated Gnome terminal with screen yet. I say go for it! Guess I'll have to RTFA to find out where to sign up for testing.

GNOME and Google reach out to women (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 22, 2006 12:18 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (2 responses)

Why? What's the advantage?

GNOME and Google reach out to women (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 22, 2006 14:35 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

See this wiki page. Ideally you'd have tabs in the terminal and GNU screen screens be the same thing, so that making a new screen in screen makes a new tab in the terminal, and vice versa. The effect would be to have terminals that never die (because they morph into detached screen sessions). Plus screen's history and the terminal's should be merged and so on. I want this for konsole now, but I guess it'll have to wait until the screen library API stabilizes. :)

GNOME and Google reach out to women (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 22, 2006 19:00 UTC (Tue) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link]

Exactly. Plus, you could attach to your terminal windows remotely. Or have multiple gnometerms/konsoles/etc attach to the same set of terminal sessions.