{"id":148,"date":"2007-10-01T07:34:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/01\/participation-in-open-source-any-worse-than-the-rest-of-the-industry\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T18:32:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T01:32:21","slug":"participation-in-open-source-any-worse-than-the-rest-of-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/01\/participation-in-open-source-any-worse-than-the-rest-of-the-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"participation in open source, any worse than the rest of the industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/01\/participation-in-open-source-any-worse-than-the-rest-of-the-industry\/tech-gender-gap\/' rel='attachment wp-att-149' title='tech gender gap'><img src='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/tech_gender_gap.thumbnail.jpg' alt='tech gender gap' align='left' style=\"padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One criticism I&#8217;ve heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/a\/womenintech\/2007\/09\/28\/to-sir-with-love-how-to-get-more-women-involved-in-open-source.html\"  \/>my article<\/a> is that I should have addressed the computing industry as a whole, rather than targeting Open Source. That the problem of women participating is much more general.<\/p>\n<p>I chose to write about Open Source because that&#8217;s my community. I installed Slackware in 1995 and learned about operating systems from a Linux command prompt, years before I took a class about it. When I worked at Intel, and there were a lot more women in my systems administration group (about 20%) than I saw on the Linux Kernel mailing list, the Cricket developers list or BugTraq. That&#8217;s part of where I formed my opinion. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews1.iwon.com\/image\/20070920\/COMPUTER_SCIENCE_WOMEN.sff_GFX119_20070920164947.html?date=20070923&#038;docid=D8RR94080\">little graph<\/a> showing the number of bachelor&#8217;s degrees granted in computer science.    We&#8217;ve had a 15% drop in degrees granted since 1985. I wonder what we were doing right in the early &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n<p>There are other resources: FLOSSPOLS, salary studies that show gender breakdowns. I&#8217;ve also read figures on conference attendance and observed the difference in open source and system administration conferences. I do admit that I have not seen studies that directly compare open source participation to closed source participation. <\/p>\n<p>How about you? Anyone out there have a study they can refer me to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One criticism I&#8217;ve heard about my article is that I should have addressed the computing industry as a whole, rather than targeting Open Source. That the problem of women participating is much more general. I chose to write about Open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/01\/participation-in-open-source-any-worse-than-the-rest-of-the-industry\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}