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What works? Getting more women involved in open source.

Monday, April 27, 2009

When you have a community, and you notice that there’s an imperfect distribution in participation, what do you do? How do you increase participation of a particular minority group? What should your goal be? For example, if you have an open source project, and you need more programmers to contribute — what do you do? [...]

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geekspeakr.com

Monday, April 14, 2008

Heard of geekspeakr.com? Brenda Wallace is created a place to store the names and interesting details of women speakers for conferences. I took a snapshot of the tag cloud so far: Yay for PostgreSQL being the only database represented! So far!

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Women Who Code – where are they?

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

[ I was working on a blog post about the Women In Open Source roundtable I ran, and then Brenda Wallace tweeted: "it seems reasonably easy 2 get women involved in opensource documentation, ui design, and even management. Why is it hard 2 get women coding?" Here's my longer response, mostly with ideas I got [...]

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