OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd

I had not noticed any sexism in the Free Software world until the last time that LWN ran a story like this, at which point various unpleasant lifeforms crawled out from under their rocks to explain that women had smaller brains etc. etc.

I would be very interested to hear whether those lifeforms have found themselves more or less welcome as "community members" since revealing their sexist views here.

I would also repeat the comments that I made at that time, that the Free Software world includes many different projects with a wide range of "vibes". I find some projects too full of unpleasant (i.e. mainly rude) individuals to want to be part of them. On the other hand, there are plenty of other projects that do suit my temperament. There is nothing wrong with choosing a project to be involved in based on the kind of people who are already working on it.