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Women in Free Software Mini-Summit

I attended the Free Software Foundation's women in free software mini-summit two weeks ago.  The summit was created in order to discuss ideas on how to involve more women in the movement.  Women make up a disproportionately small portion of the free software movement.  As Deb puts it "Women account for less than 2% of our community and that's just no way to run a successful movement to empower users."

I thought the community might like to check it out:


p.s. For those who don't know about the free software movement, it is an ethical movement that is concerned with bringing freedom back to users over their software.  You can learn more by going clicking here .

Posted by adelaida - October 01, 2009, at 09:36AM | in Technology
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