Comments on: Ada Lovelace Day: Two ground-breaking open source projects

By: Christian Einfeldt (einfeldt) 's status on Thursday, 23-Jul-09 22:24:56 UTC - Identi.ca

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:25:01 +0000

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By: Stormy (storming) 's status on Thursday, 23-Jul-09 16:44:51 UTC - Identi.ca

Stormy (storming) 's status on Thursday, 23-Jul-09 16:44:51 UTC - Identi.ca — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:45:13 +0000

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By: Sean Tilley

Sean Tilley — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:37:35 +0000

I think these are absolutely great initiatives. In the long run, I think these projects will inspire other initiatives to support diversity more. The old days of the sexist hacker groups will fall in no time.

I really enjoyed the speech today at OSCON about women and Open Source. Very moving.

By: Michael R. Bernstein (webmaven) 's status on Thursday, 23-Jul-09 16:33:51 UTC - Identi.ca

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:34:05 +0000

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Infotropism – Dreamwidth invite codes available — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:54:12 +0000

[...] have a handful of invite codes for Dreamwidth, the open source project I blogged about here and here that has about 75% female [...]

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Infotropism – Dispatches from the revolution — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:09:25 +0000

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By: pfctdayelise

pfctdayelise — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:34:34 +0000

Wow, they both sound completely awesome. Thanks so much for writing them up!

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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:05:21 +0000

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By: Skud

Skud — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:21:11 +0000

Agreed, Adam. I have seen a similar community on Ravelry (a knitting and crochet community) and I think that if Ravelry had chosen to go open source early on, and recruited female technical leadership, they could have had a similar level of participation.

By: Adma Kennedy

Adma Kennedy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:49:26 +0000

I can’t help but wonder if there are any opportunities in the world of quilting.

My mother is a quilter, and that is quite a similar situation. Predominately women, all creative types, with an understanding of structure (and probably fairly easily able to pick up ideas on components etc).

The only real difference (and temporary limiting factor) is that most of them are older and less technologically savvy.

But the quilting world certain has a reasonable sub-35 population from which you could draw.