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only 1.5 percent of open-source developers?

Liz Henry blogs about an amazing presentation that Angela Byron did about women in free and open-source software at the Flourish conference:

Angela’s talk addressed “How to Deal with the following situations”:

* Sexist jokes
* Posting sexual material (porn, etc.)
* Verbally attacking/dismissing women (time of the month)
* Death threats

The most jaw-dropping part is when she mentions that women account for 28 percent of proprietory software developers, but only 1.5 percent of people in open-source software. WTF?

Liz also mentions that blogging superhero Beth Kanter won an award for “most valuable person in the nonprofit tech community.” Go Beth!

This entry was posted by charlieanders on Monday, April 9th, 2007 at 10:47 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “only 1.5 percent of open-source developers?”

  1. Beth Kanter Says:
    April 9th, 2007 at 7:22 pm

    Thanks so much for the shout out! I came across that presentation via a different route - also attended penguin day - so it was very fitting.

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