Re: Another "Women in Open Source" Session

[Danese Cooper <danese@gmail.com>]

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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