This situation is pritty much improving.
SNDT Univercity's UMIT college of engineering runs gnu/linux in all
there labs and use all the foss tools such as gcc, postgresql, LaTeX
Anjuta IDE Netbeans IDE etc.
The girls are very active in foss.
Look at gnukhata, the project I lead for example.
I am amongst the male minority in the auther's list for the software.
these are just a couple of examples.
And if we are talking in terms of international context,
the lead developer of Orca screen reader for the blind is joanmery digs,
a woman.
So its really wrong to say that women are less.
It is just that they are now catching up as far as all this is
concerned, and yes I agree with Vivek that unfortunately women are a bit
less in digital technology field itself.
But time is changing.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Friday 03 September 2010 06:50 AM, Vivek Khurana wrote:
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:27 AM, H.S.Rai<[email protected]> wrote:
There is one perception that there is very less number of Women /
Girls who are using Linux or have career in Linux and FOSS? Even I
encountered a website, which talk about encouraging women for Linux,
don't know what is the result.
I dont buy the argument that there are less women in FOSS. Look
closely the ration of men and women is much higher in FOSS world than
for non-FOSS technologies.
The real problem is lack of women in technology sector per se and not
just FOSS.
regards
Vivek
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