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GNOME Women

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2005-06-14 12:12. GNOME
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Hanna Wallach recently announced the formation of the GNOME Women project: "Concerned about the lack of female GNOME developers and inspired by the success of the Debian Women Project, Máirín Duffy and I have founded GNOME Women, a project to encourage more women to participate in GNOME development. At present, we’re starting small—just an IRC channel and a forthcoming mailing list—but I’m hopeful that the project will be as enourmously needed and successful as Debian Women. If you’re interested in getting involved, do drop by the IRC channel (#gnome-women on irc.gnome.org) or send me an email.
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A mailing list and archives are now available, with a website also in the works.

I agree

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-06-14 21:38.

A lot of these comments are discouragingly immature and counter-productive. However, I think that they represent a part of our community that is at least equaled if not over shadowed by people who are conscious of gender and sex issues.
However, to try to make this thread somewhat productive for those of us who want to improve the current sitation: Val Henson has written a thorough article about how to encourage more participation from women in the free software community available at http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/howto.html
I read it a few weeks ago and found it very simple and insightful. Definitely worth a quick read.

Cheers,
Brad

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