Thought for a Topic

[bcholmes]

Note to self: consider suggesting a WisCon panel on the role of women in the tech industry in general, and Open Source software in particular. I think that Emma Jane Hogbin's presentation is a good starting point, but there are a lot of good analses of the problem.

I particularly liked finding the link to the Five Geek Social Fallacies.

Two interesting data points to look up:

1. What percentage of speakers at JavaOne were women?
2. This week, Agile 2008 is taking place in Toronto. Is the percentage any different there?

Comments

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

I'm in... especially if we bring it round to talking about female characters in science fiction and how sf portrays hackers & geeks & techies