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GNOME needs women

Posted by dcparris on · 3 comments
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The GNOME Foundation received 181 applications for the Google Summer of Code (SoC) program, but not a single application was from a female developer. The lack of women participating in GNOME, and free software in general, has spurred the GNOME foundation to start a summer program to reach out to female developers.

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Comments (3)

devnet ·
I need women too. Lots of them. Please step in line and take a number. I will be with you as soon as I can. Thanks.
jimf ·
Yeah, I wouldn't even ask for programming skills.
mvermeer ·
Needing is one thing, getting quite another. Perhaps you should ask me for the gentle-introduction-cum-howto, in case (as I find easy to predict with those attitudes) you're not getting it...

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