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Women in Drupal and Open Source Free Software generally

An impressive crew in the DrupalChix introductions.

Much more recent notes

http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Womenscaucus/resources

http://www.blogher.com/where-are-all-women-question-time-open-source

http://www.blogher.com/open-doors-open-source (see Emma Jane's presentation)

For DGD7 Contributing to the Community: Drupal as a movement: Building a better Drupal community for a better world

key steps for building a better community:
http://infotrope.net/blog/2009/07/25/standing-out-in-the-crowd-my-oscon-keynote/

Key comment on how we should engage on IRC:
http://webchick.net/presentations/women-in-open-source-owv-09#comment-983

women in technology

Most excellent:
http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2010/07/26/woman-in-technology/
Another courageous voice accepting the flack she knows she'll get for talking about her experiences with sexism and possible sexism-- and the whole topic of women in tech.

To a man who doesn't see any barriers to women in tech: "Um, dude, if your site was loading in 18 seconds but you couldn’t think of any reason for it, would you decide you didn’t have a performance problem?"

"Maria Klawe also said that even the best women in a CS program are far more likely to drop out than the worst guys. When asked how they think they compare, these women consistently rank themselves far below their actual skill level."

excellent:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/cgi-bin/wordpressblog/2010/02/malaysian-women-redefine-gender-roles-in-tech...
[tip: bangpound]

from 2000:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/290/5489/55
[tip: bangpound]

See also

http://data.agaric.com/link/why-women-programmers-arent-fad

http://data.agaric.com/link/make-your-dude-dominated-subculture-more-accessible-women-sexist-washington-city-paper

http://data.agaric.com/link/drupal-voices-100-jack-aponte-diversity-power-and-privilege-open-source-communities-...

http://data.agaric.com/node/2023

http://data.agaric.com/node/1538

http://data.agaric.com/node/1432

Searched words: 
female participation openness inviting diversity of open source free software communities women in tech

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