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Tackling Open Source's Gender Issues

Posted by Soulskill on from the bringing-balance-to-the-force dept.

angry tapir writes "Women's participation in open source development is at a far lower level than women's participation in proprietary software development. One of the groups that aims to change this is the Ada Initiative: A non-profit organization formed last year. I recently caught up with its two founders, Linux kernel developer Valerie Aurora and comp sci PhD student Mary Gardiner, to discuss the project."

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  1. Re:Community resistance by ArhcAngel · · Score: 0, Troll

    We've talked internally about passive bias; if we bought a woman

    Talk about your Freudian slips! Ladies if you ever wanted to know what 99.99999999999999999999 of men really think about women I think jemmyw has summed it up quite nicely.

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