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Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 19
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Today in 2009 began the Free Software Foundation mini-summit on Women in Free Software. It was just one project in a wave of activity that rebirthed and set a regular schedule for GNOME’s outreach program which grew into a successful and lasting project.
It was one of the first official acknowledgements of systemic sexism in the Free Software world.http://datamation.com/osrc/article.php/3838186/Sexism-Open-Source-Softwares-Dirty-Little-Secret.htm Even compared to the rest of the IT industry, the gender ratio was several times worse.
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