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There I was standing around the LUG booth at the annual Linux expo when I realized that unlike years past, there were considerable numbers of female attendants. No, I am not referring exclusively to those female models hired to promote an OS (I won't mention which one) wearing skimpy demon costumes.
I was truly encouraged to find that women from all backgrounds and ages were making up an increasingly larger portion of those attending such Linux conferences.
After speaking with three in particular I came to appreciate the women of Linux as passionate and techno savvy as any of their kernel compiling male counterparts.
What this means for Linux and the community as a whole I leave to your personal interpretation. But what it means to the individual women involved with...
It's a decent article that highlights some of the things that make Linux fun, like meeting smart people with actual brains who like tinkering and learning new things.
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But then, if there were a venue in the reverse, where I could find a ready pool of interested, helpful women, I would likely go chasing it too.
Such is life.