Women in FLOSS, tell Bruce Perens you exist
Unicorn check-in time for women in open source!
Bruce Perens seems to think that women aren’t passionate about open source software:
What I meant was that there are more women who hold technical jobs than there are women who so love the technology that they will work on it whether they get paid or not. That seems to be an especially male thing.
I told him I was, and he confused me with Yuwei Lin and then told me I (she?) was an outlier.
How about we all head on over there and tell him that a) we exist, b) we ARE passionate about open source, and c) yes there IS a problem, even if he doesn’t see it.
- Create an LWN account (free)
- Comment on this thread
- Prepare your bingo cards for a round of “Wow, there are girls here?!?”
I’m turning off comments on this post. Go make them on LWN, not here.
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