Re: Another "Women in Open Source" Session

[Bernhard Krieger <blk20@cam.ac.uk>]

Hey,

Here are links the largest surveys on free software developers in 2001/2002:

a) Widi survey carried out by the Technical University of Berlin in 2001 
with 1.1 % women online on
http://widi.berlios.de/paper/study.html

b) FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) developers´ survey undertaken 
by the University of Maastricht from 2002 with 1,1 % of female 
participants, online on
http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/Final4.htm

c) OSDN Hacker survey carried out by the Boston Consulting Group in 2002 
had 98% men online on
http://www.ostg.com/bcg/bcg-0.73/img20.html

The current FLOSSPOLS survey 
http://flosspols.org/survey/survey_part.php?groupid=blkosc now has more 
female participants. However this is certainly due to the fact that the 
survey is also on gender issues as well as since we try to get as many 
female free software participants as possible to participate in order to 
carry out a statistically sound analysis on gender groups.

Bernhard  


Danese Cooper schrieb:

> I'm copying Bernhard Kreiger to comment on the research that backs up  
> this number.  As I understand it, the number is borne out in several  
> studies.
>
> Danese
>
> On Aug 12, 2005, at 4:56 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
>
> > Em Seg, 2005-08-08 às 16:00 -0400, Christine Spang escreveu:
> >
> > > Neat! Looks like an article about the session made it into  
> > > Newsforge[1],
> > > with both you and DW mentioned. Do we have a press/articles  section on
> > > the site/wiki? Should we?
> > >
> > > Keep us in the loop about the Women in Open Source thing.
> > >
> > > 1. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/08/1449259
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > I've seen some news in Brasil, too, and one of them had 'only 2% of  
> > free
> > software developers are women'[0] (I think borrowed from computer  
> > world)
> > and witnessed some negative reaction to this study on the local
> > linuxchix group.
> >
> > Danese, do you have pointers for the research which comes to that
> > conclusion?
> >
> > Congrats on what seems was a very positive panel!
> >
> > See ya,
> >
> > [0]: I could not find the original link where I first saw it, but  
> > here's
> > one of the 'relayers':
> >
> >  http://www.serpro.gov.br/noticiasSERPRO/20050809_07
> >
> > --
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