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Re: [LUG] Why are there so few women in our LUG - does this indicate there are few female Linux users ?

 

Viv wrote:
> We don't seem to have very many female members - off hand, I can't think
> of more than Clare, Gemma and myself (I apologise if I have missed
> anyone). However, certainly we are in a significant minority.
> 
> Is there something about Linux that makes it "female unfriendly? 
> If there is, I don't know what it is?
>  
> What are your thoughts?

There's a HOWTO on it
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/

One of the things I hadn't really considered until now (because it 
doesn't bother me, although it would have when I was younger) is that 
some of the places that the DCGLUG has previously held meetings are 
typically male dominated environments, pubs and sports clubs. The 
meetings at the Shoreline Cafe are a move in the right direction but I 
am at a bit of loss to think of other gender balanced places we could 
meet, community centres/village halls perhaps?


Gem


 From a Slashdot discussion on GNOMEs efforts to encourage women.

from http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/15/2229221
> Dev1: As a developer on a gnome project, I can tell you bluntly that
> additional women would help. Additional men would help. Heck,
> additional crack smoking monkeys would even come in handy,
 > as long as they could tell the difference between a semaphore and a 
banana.
 >
 > Dev2: As a KDE developer, I can tell you bluntly that GNOME should
 > seriously cut down on the crack-smoking monkeys, they have too much
 > influence on your desktop.

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