Bruce Byfield: Sexism in the FOSS Community?
Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca
Mon, 18 January 2010 7:30 - 9:30 pm
** BCIT, Building SW1 Room 1025 **
Bruce Byfield: Sexism in the FOSS Community?
2009 was the year that feminism came to the FOSS community. Suddenly,
people started noticing the lack of women, and the systemic sexism in
the community. What happened? How justified is the reaction? Why
does it matter? Come prepared for a lively and open discussion.
About the Speaker:
Bruce is a freelance writer, editor and computer journalist
specializing in free and open source software (FOSS). He has published
over 700 articles, mostly online on such sites as Datamation, IT
Manager's Journal, Linux.com, Linux Developer Network, Linux Journal,
LinuxPlanet, LWN, NewsForge, and Techwr-l. Currently Bruce is doing a
column about the GNU/Linux command line for Linux Pro Magazine and
contributing regularly to Ubuntu User.