Ten easy ways to attract women to your free software project

Posted by scrubs on Sep 26, 2008 9:51 AM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Terry Hancock
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The gender inequality among developers and supporters of free software is stunning. Less than 2% of us are women, according to studies conducted for the European Commission. Why? The evidence says we’re driving them away. There are even some pretty good published guidelines on how not to drive them away. What’s missing is a practical implementation strategy: here I present ten relatively simple changes in how you run your project, to make it more attractive to would-be contributors—especially women.

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