<div dir="ltr">Speaking of women in Open Source; OLPC alumni Mary-Lou Jepson was recently a keynote speaker at the Grace Hopper Conference on women in technology. I've heard that there is a professional video of the event, but I haven't seen it online.<br>
<br>She also had a really cool interview mid-summer that I haven't really seen anyone talk about yet:<br><br><a href="http://www.bigthink.com/business-economics/11935">http://www.bigthink.com/business-economics/11935</a><br>
<br>--Seth<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Brian Jordan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@laptop.org">brian@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Free Software Magazine has published an article about the gender gap<br>
in open source software development vs. commercial software<br>
development and some things that projects can do to be more inviting<br>
to female contributors.<br>
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<a href="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/ten_easy_ways_attract_women_your_free_software_project" target="_blank">http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/ten_easy_ways_attract_women_your_free_software_project</a><br>
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(found via Rwanda LUG:<br>
<a href="http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rwanda-lug/web/women-in-open-source-projects" target="_blank">http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rwanda-lug/web/women-in-open-source-projects</a><br>
... thanks Robert)<br>
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Some of article's points:<br>
• Use forums instead of mailing lists<br>
• When possible, wikis instead of version control archives<br>
• When possible, high level languages<br>
• Replace pecking-orders with affirmation processes (thank you's)<br>
• Don't undervalue documentation, marketing, graphics<br>
• Create a formal mentoring / induction process<br>
• Make the existing women in your project visible<br>
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