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Form an orderly queue, ladies (OSCON, 2008)

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Form an orderly queue, ladies (OSCON, 2008) Presentation Transcript

Form an orderly queue, ladies how to really get more women involved in FOSS emma jane hogbin

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Deniau Sylvain this is excellent and well designed!!
S. 4 years ago

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Emma Jane Hogbin, Technical Author and Trainer at Owen Sound, Canada Thank you for all of your kind comments!

@caitling I think there are lots of reasons why women don't participate in FOSS projects (and each reason will be unique to that individual). I think we need to start looking forward to find new ways to encourage women into being comfortable using software instead of focusing on where the problems have been in the past. For example: there are lots of jobs available now to work on open source projects. It's no longer just a hobby!! 4 years ago

Caitlin , Information Architect Fabulous! Thank you so much for pulling this all together in such a compelling and witty way.

Seems like another reason women may not participate in open source projects as much is simply the time -- after work, there's child care and everything else -- so pro bono work is less possible. Are there ways to participate in smaller chunks that don't require hours at a stretch? 4 years ago

Selena Deckelmann, Software Engineer at Self I've seen Emma give this talk twice, and it is fantastic. Finally, a call to action for all those who want to see the World Domination of Open Source, and a path forward to increasing the number of women who are active in our communities. 4 years ago

L at L impressing! Provoking! This tribute for women is really brilliant. Congratulations Emmajane. 4 years ago

Amit Ranjan, CoFounder at SlideShare this is undoubtedly awesome ....

any chance this could be converted into a slidecast by adding audio and synching it... that would add the context.. would make it far more compelling as well 4 years ago