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Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron First Female Fedora Project Leader

Posted by timothy on from the cultural-barriers-be-damned dept.

darthcamaro writes "Red Hat is changing the leadership at the Fedora Project. Jared Smith is out after having been the Fedora Project Leader since June of 2010. In is Robyn Bergeron — who will be the first female leader of the open source project's history. Bergeron is well known in the community as she has most recently been the Fedora Program Manager."

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  1. Why is gender important? by crath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And what is the point of putting her gender in the headline? Are women generally less capable than men and so it's a miracle that she made it to project leader? I don't believe that is the case; so, why emphasise her gender? This is a non-story and shouldn't have made it to the front page of /.

  2. I'm Glad That's Out of the Way by walkerp1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So next time we don't have to wonder about the motivation of the first X to do Y when Y has no performance correlation to X.