that's what she said: a few reasons why women don't contribute to open source and a few...
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My presentation from Write/Speak/Code 2013.
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That's What She Said!
ORA Few Reasons Why Many Women Don't
Contribute to Open Source and A Few Reasons Why They Should Anyway
@kavbojka
Why Open Source? Why OSS? Why FOSS? Why FLOSS?
Immediacy
Nerdy/Problem Solving
Political Do-Gooder
Joininess
So if Open Source is so great then why aren't more people getting involved?
Why aren't more women getting involved?
The usual reasons...
(external)
(internal)
Hobbyism
Freedom to Fail
“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”- Linus's Law by Eric Raymond
A Culture of Irreverence
Free and Open?
So, why should more women be involved in FLOSS?
We are the 3%!
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