Hi, I don't think the article merits any sort of official response. It's interesting reading, but once I got to the (quote) "People often speak of the FLOSS �community,� but that phrase implies a degree of coherence that has never existed" (end quote) assertion, I realized the article had negligible credibility. How can you possibly assert that? I see it proven false on a daily basis in every "FLOSS" community I belong to. I think most readers of SD Online are intelligent enough to conclude the same.
I have two good counter-examples from the Tomcat community. Amy Roh has been a great, productive, creative, fun-to-work-with committer for a long time. We further have a number of woman who regularly post both questions of their own and answers to others' questions on the tomcat-user list, so while they're not Tomcat committers they are definitely part of the Tomcat community. But you know what, on a night like tonight with the Sox moving on in the playoffs, even an apparently bashing article like this doesn't bother me much! Have a good weekend everyone ;) Yoav --- Brian Behlendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use www.bugmenot.com if you need a password. > > Comments? Is there anything the community thinks we could do to address > the situation? > > Brian > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:09:41 -0400 > From: Greg Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Open Source, Cold Shoulder > > Hello everyone. I'm very pleased to announce that an article Michelle > Levesque and I wrote about why so few women get involved in open source > computing, and what that reveals about open source's weaknesses, is now > on-line at: > > http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/sdm0411b/ > > You may have to register to view it, but registration is free. > > Thanks, > Greg Wilson > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
