The other day on programming.reddit the following article was posted under the title: "What Kernel Hackers Look like": http://lwn.net/Articles/248891/ which may help answer your question. As a male librarian who's also a CS student in evening, it's completely bizarre to switch between 2 worlds with reversed 1:9 gender ratio inequality. Unfortunately, there's much more gender hostility in the CS side of things in my experience, and I think some of this carries over into the OSS world.
My guess would be that the suggestion was at least somewhat sincere in an attempt to foster and support more development teams whose group photos aren't a "Where's Waldo" when searching for female developers. --Will On 10/5/07, Deb Bergeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I ran across a posting the other day suggesting that women interested in > open-source solutions use OSS solutions developed by women. > > Ok, I admit I'm naive here--is there a gender gap in OSS development? Can > someone chime in on why this would be a suggestion or even a serious > consideration? Perhaps the suggestion is sarcasm? Why not just work with > existing OSS developers, be they men or women? > > Thanks for any insight. > > Deb > > > -- > > Deb Bergeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Admin: User Support > CLIC Consortium <http://clic.edu> > 1619 Dayton Avenue, Suite 204A > Saint Paul, MN 55104 > O:*651.644.3878* C:*651.487.7609* F:651.644.6258 >
