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Clearly, members of the Linux community would like to see more of involved en Linux and FOSS in general, but why do women keep far away for the computers in general? Why do they stay away from Linux in particular? And what can we do to help encourage women to use Linux and help develop it? I hope this short article help to increase the number of interested women in the subject. |
First of all, there are already many women participating in the development of free software ... here we introduce some of them.
FLOSS girls
machtelt garrels: She is a Linux veteran and is currently a freelance consultant and trainer. He is also a member of the Linux Documentation Project, a place he found for his writings to be read all over the world. Member of the BSD Certification Group Advisory Borrad shares all his knowledge about the certification organization. You are collaborating with the non-profit group OpenDoc Society that promotes the use of free standards.
Pia Waugh Pia Waugh: This Australian is completely dedicated to free software. She is currently the President of the Software Freedom Day organization and Vice President of Linux Australia.
Erinn clark: A Debian developer and co-founder and currently leading the Debian Women project.
Hanna wallach: GNOME and Debian developer. She contributed to the GNOME Foundation to create the Women's Summer Outreach Program.
Amaya Rodrigo Sastre: Debian developer and co-founder of Debian Women. She is a Technical Translator at the Universidad del Rey Juan Carlos. This is your personal blog.
Celeste Lyn Paul: From the Universities of Baltimore and Duquesne. Interaction designer, researcher and contributor to open source development. She also leads the KDE Usability Project, mentor to OpenUsability Season of Usability, and is involved in Kubuntu development.
Eva brucherseifer: From Darmstadt Technical University and Kungliga Tekniska högskolan. Electrical engineer from Germany behind the KDE-Women, KDE-Edu and KDE-Solaris projects.
Anne Nicolas Velu: Coming from the Université Paris Sud de Paris (Public Marketing, 1987-1990), she is the current Engineering Director of Mandriva.
Kristen Carlson Accardi: Developer of the GNU / Linux kernel, who works for Intel. She has been a driver developer since 1990 and began concentrating on developing drivers for GNU / Linux since 2005.
Valerie henson: From Tecnológico de New Mexico. GNU / Linux kernel programmer specialized in the development of file systems (filesystems).
Stormy peters: Former Hewlett-Packard program manager for open source. She was recently appointed Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, of which she was a co-founder. She has been involved in the GNOME community since 1999.
nixie-pixel: She is a beautiful woman who shares her Linux experiences with others, helping to avoid the same mistakes she has made. She is a fan of the game. reviews the games you can play a bit, and gives people a taste of what's good and what's not good about them before they buy. His true love is creating videos that make geeks laugh.
Maria Leandro "Tatica": Activist of free software, photography and design. Main enthusiastic promoter of events to promote free software in Venezuela, although her enthusiasm infects and encourages all Spanish-speaking people. Accessible, simple, educational. Makes video tutorials on GIMP. He gives entertaining talks and workshops in many cities of Venezuela. Fedora activist and also supports all distributions. In short, she is unique and an example for many young women in Latin America.
Sarah Sharp: is a Linux Kernel hacker at Intel's Open Source Technology Center. It brought us USB 3.0 for linux. In her spare time, she volunteers for the Portland State Aerospace, Open Source / Open Hardware Society that builds amateur rockets. Sarah is also a member of the Portland's Code 'N Splode group.
Sarah has used git in many projects for two years: her wedding wiki, blog, Linux kernel projects, and keeping track of her home directory.
Communities
Linux Girls: it is a community created by women that aims to provide a meeting space for people who have Linux and free software as a common interest. But the most important objective of this community is to encourage women to participate and initiate in the world of free software, showing them that it is possible to participate actively, thus supporting the cause started by LinuxChix.
OTHER: They are a group of women Organized by Open and Sustainable Technologies and Resources (OTRAS) emerged in 2009 as an initiative of a group of women that make up the Central America Free Software Community. In its beginnings, it was called Central American for Free Software but it was expanded from the work of reflection on its objectives and when it received registration requests from women from regions other than Central America.
FOSSchix: It is a community created by and for Colombian women who are interested in the benefits of free software. The work carried out by the group is to motivate women to participate and start in the world of free software, whether in development, research or dissemination.
KDE-Women: This group was a pioneer among the Free Software development communities in the creation of a specific working group of women. His work dates back to at least 2000. The KDE desktop is one of the most widely used in Linux distributions.
Debian Women: Debian is one of the main Linux distributions. The project was created in 1993. The women's group began its work in 2004. Debian has a special value that its development model is independent of the companies and it is the community itself that works on the advances. There is a wide group of developers but the truth is that there are very few women in it.
Women's Fedora: Group created in July 2006. Fedora is related to the Linux distribution created by the American company Red Hat.
Apache Women: Apache is the most used http server. It's great that the women involved in the project have decided to coordinate. The list dates from August 2005.
Gnome Women: The GNOME project (GNU Network Object Model Environment) emerged in August 1997 as a project led by the Mexicans Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena to create a completely free desktop environment for free operating systems, especially for GNU / Linux. From the beginning, the main goal of GNOME has been to provide a user-friendly suite of applications and an easy-to-use desktop.
Mozilla Women: Mozilla Community of Women Developers.
Very good post, I have been using Linux for a while now, I am currently using Slackware. It is also my doubt that few women dedicate themselves to Free Softwae. I think it's good that they post about those that they like and help 🙂
Regards!
Excellent post I blog it in my blog!
Thank you!
How good to see you here Maria! A hug! Paul.
Good post! I have always been interested in knowing what are the difficulties that keep so many women away from free software.
Is the world of the SL macho? Is it more macho than the world of proprietary software?
or else has the world
Hey Thank you very much for the mention. You just do your bit every day and hope that every day someone with the same ideology will contribute and fall in love with this beautiful world. Hugs from Venezuela!
(Good to see this post again on the new merged site, I will contribute my 2 cents again)
There are things that the Linuxera community (and perhaps computing and other areas in general as well) must learn: include, help and support women so that they feel part of a team and that they are not discriminated against so that they can develop their potential and contribute in all possible areas (from dissemination to development)
Now with his attitude, that is another matter (as we say in my country) 😉: D ...