Posts Tagged ‘women in open source’

Posted in GSoC, Google at 3:39 pm October 23, 2007

As I mentioned before, some of the participants of Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit had dinner together the night before the “unconference” earlier this month.
When I volunteered to make dinner reservations due to my being a local, there were less than 10 people. By the time I was to make reservations earlier in the [...]

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Posted in Coding, Coppermine, GSoC, Google at 10:47 pm May 12, 2007

Google Summer of Code has released stats on women participation in this year’s GSoC. Only four percent of students in the program are women. Apparently, that’s twice the percentage of female representation in the open source world.
I guess it’s not surprising. In 2004, I was the first woman to be on the dev team for [...]

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