The last weeks, I dealt with the subject: Women in
FLOSS. I use linux for about two years and I'm a contributor for more than a year now, and I always felt that as a woman I'm treated differently than other contributors (in both, positive and negative terms).
In the first instance, this blog posting is a response to several comments which were made on the blog of Mathieu in reaction to his
blog posting where he published the
complete French translation of the famous
How to encourge women in linux. First, I want to say: thank you Mathieu for this posting!!
Most of the comments on his posting were pretty negative, and I get the impression that these people didn't read the howto or have a lack of information on the subject. But, instead of losing a lot of useless words, I just give you some figures from the FLOSSpols
Gender: Integrated Report of Findings and some links (see below), in case that some of you are interested in the subject. I won't comment on the figures, since the
Gender: Integrated Report of Findings already gives good explanations, and I invite you to read the
whole report.
Links:
I just post some links as a first source of information, of course there are many, many more, this is just a starting point. For those of you who haven't got the time to read all the FLOSSpols report, just have a look at the talk of Anne Østergaard.
HowTo encourage women in linux (EN)
HowTo encourage women in linux (FR)
FLOSSpol deliverables
Talk of Anne Østergaard at Akademy 2006
LinuxChix
UbuntuWomen