Women in open source...

[Colin McGregor]

A sort of tie-in to "Women in IT", Slashdot has a
story about the Fedora website now has a women's area:

 linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/29/1444223

All this to go with previous the previous Linux Chix,
Debian Women and Ubuntu Women websites.

Was interested to see that I helped push a woman in
Colorodo Springs over the edge into Linux showing up
on the Ubuntu Women website, one Elaine Normandy. What
I did can be seen here (along with a letter to the
editor by Elaine Normandy at the bottom):

  www.linuxjournal.com/article/7127

Then Elaine Normandy's introduction on the Ubuntu
website:

lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2006-June/000332.html

Now, when I did the customised Knoppix for the World
Science Fiction Convention my goal wasn't to convert
people to Linux (though I am pleased that it seems to
have happened at least once), but to solve a nasty set
of problems on a very limited budget. 

Is part of the issue we need to show people that this
is a solution that works. Demo times?


Colin McGregor

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