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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.

more female gnomes

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-06-15 12:03.

As much as I would like to see more women in Gnome (they tend to look better and some are even really nice people : ) the question I have to ask is how many is more? The lack of women programmers in Gnome could be slightly related to the lack of women programmers as a whole, so it could be hard to get "more".

Personally I think this could be a good idea, think of all the male geeks that would join Gnome if they found out there where women participating.

Hmm, maybe a system to prevent harassment would also be a good idea.

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