Comments on: Dru Lavigne on Women in Open Source http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/2679.html Data is ones and zeroes | Software is ones and zeroes and hard work. Tue, 22 May 2012 16:23:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Alicia http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/2679.html#comment-2807 Alicia Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:52:27 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/?p=2679#comment-2807 I am merely one small data point, but I have never found a role in the open source community that I would even consider doing. For years I have thought "G is would be a good idea to have a little open source work on my resume"...which is usually followed by a few days of looking for a project to excite me...which is concluded by "maybe in a few months"... I don't know whether it is the distribution of teams that bothers me or the lack of project that I find personally relevant. Maybe some day... I am merely one small data point, but I have never found a role in the open source community that I would even consider doing. For years I have thought “G is would be a good idea to have a little open source work on my resume”…which is usually followed by a few days of looking for a project to excite me…which is concluded by “maybe in a few months”…

I don’t know whether it is the distribution of teams that bothers me or the lack of project that I find personally relevant. Maybe some day…

]]> By: Blaise Alleyne http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/2679.html#comment-2806 Blaise Alleyne Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:05:22 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/?p=2679#comment-2806 I'm not sure what to think either, but two knee-jerk reactions: (1) the doctors/health care analogy seems apt, in terms of highlighting that open source is about more than programming, but (2) few would think it alright if many women were involved in health care but few were doctors (or if many are involved in business and few are CEOs, etc...). I’m not sure what to think either, but two knee-jerk reactions: (1) the doctors/health care analogy seems apt, in terms of highlighting that open source is about more than programming, but (2) few would think it alright if many women were involved in health care but few were doctors (or if many are involved in business and few are CEOs, etc…).

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