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GNOME Reaches Out to Women

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-the-ladies-in-the-house dept.

Dominic Hargreaves writes "This year GNOME received 181 applications to Google's Summer of Code program, yet none were from women. As a result, they've decided to address this imbalance by launching an outreach program to sponsor three female students to work on GNOME-related projects this summer." Most any science department will tell you that the amount of interest and involvement of women pales next to men of similar age and background. Is this sponsorship a creative way to get women interested in GNOME, or is it merely sexist?

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  1. Gasp! by Frightening · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did anyone else read the headline and imagine a pink theme? With ponies for icons?
    Please don't do this to me again.

    Also, additional info for the Gnome devs who are apparently living our dream of space travel:

    -Women like to go shopping

    -Women can't park cars to save their lives

    -When women think technology, they think microwave ovens

    -Women like to yell at sexists who make generalisations about women

    1. Re:Gasp! by Frightening · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      To the idiot who modded me flamebait: you didn't read the last line did you?

  2. punch it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    punch it up your arsehole cuntface

  3. Re:Shows what you know. by CableModemSniper · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Karma Whore. The only woman in computing on this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing) he didn't list was the one without an entry devoted to her. Also he spelled "Ada" incorrectly, which is totally unacceptable as it is both a woman and a programming language. Shows what you know indeed.

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    Why not fork?
  4. Re:Not Sexist. by wirerat1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Do you realize how much money would need to be spent to market Linux to women? Does the generic Linux have a marketing budget that can constantly dazzle women with shiny new features and widgets to keep them interested? No. So stop dreaming. Only large corporations can do that and women are sheep to the marketing machine, so unless Linux has the bucks, you're not going to get them to use it.