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Re: [LUG] women and mozilla
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] women and mozilla
- From: Vivi Griffin <vivi.griffin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:05:56 +0000
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On 18 February 2010 13:25, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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John Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 15:40 -0800, Rhia Knowles wrote:
>> OK, What?
>>
>> I looked on that site, on the blog entries... there is nothing about
>> what they are doing and why.
>>
>> Care to tell me what you know about it? Or did you just see it was a
>> FLOSS project and go, hey, something to shout about?
>
> A quick look at the site, and clicking the "About Us" link in the top
> right seemed to answer who they are and why.
>
>
>
It was sent to DFEY by one of the members, who is also female. I
thought as we have women here then it may be of interest.
Paul
I have had a quick look. It appears that this group is trying to encourage more women to get involved in IT development generally and highlight the contributions that women, specifically have made to Floss so, that more are encouraged to do this as well.
This link seems to summarise it quite well :
Whether this is a good or bad thing, is a matter of opinion. I have worked in IT for a number of years and have not found the environment to be difficult for me as a female. Maybe I was just lucky - I don't know.
However, if there are not many women contributors to Floss projects, then I do think it would be a good idea to encourage more involvement. Many women I speak to have never heard of Linux but, once they see it, tend to become more enthusiastic converts than men that I have shown it too. I could suggest reasons for this but, will refrain :-)
Viv
P.S. For those of you that recall, the Ubuntu PC that I sent to the nursery went down a storm - none of the kids want to use the Windows one but, they squabble over the Linux one!!!
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