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GNOME Women

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2005-06-14 12:12. GNOME

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.

Battle of the sexes

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-06-18 10:35.

Why there is always a need to differentiate the sexes yet again is beyong me. Why woman still feel the need to stamp their foot down, raise their arms, and yell, "Look at me, I am a WOMAN and I do what a man does!" is beyond me. Not that it makes any difference and not that there are women out there that do not want to touch Gnome but now manage to crawl from the shadows because a ray of light that is dubbed Gnome Women has come down from the heavens to deliver them.

Why the lack of female Gnome developers is concerning is another can of worms all together. Perhaps it lies in the fact that women excel in other areas and men excel in math. For whatever the cause, this empirical fact, might show the large gap between the genders in programmin, not just Gnome programming, but across the spectrum of closed and open source. Do not confuse what this means but recognize what it may explain.

More people for the Gnome project of course can never be a bad thing, but do we really need a gender specific aim to it?

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