We recently conducted a similiar poll at the University of Illinois. Some very interesting points came up. Female programmers account for only 1.7% of all programmers, yet they account for over 8.2% of all open source programmers. Open source programmers are also seen in high numbers in the social-democrat cooperative lifestyled Scandanavian countries (the venerable birthplace of opensource mind you). This poll should be very interesting to see how it compares to the one we conducted. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the homosexuality numbers play out.
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We recently conducted a similiar poll at the University of Illinois. Some very interesting points came up. Female programmers account for only 1.7% of all programmers, yet they account for over 8.2% of all open source programmers. Open source programmers are also seen in high numbers in the social-democrat cooperative lifestyled Scandanavian countries (the venerable birthplace of opensource mind you). This poll should be very interesting to see how it compares to the one we conducted. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the homosexuality numbers play out.