[UbuntuWomen] Hi, I'm the new kid | Can technology be "more female "?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Sunday 26 April 2009 2:18:45 am VidA wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 19:51, julia friesel
> <julia.friesel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I am also currently working on a paper on women in free software, 
exploring
> > why it is that technology is such a male domain and why it can be so
> > difficult for women to enter it (or why most of them don't want to in the
> > first place), and what the implications of all this are for the digital
> > architectures we will continue to live in. So any thoughts on that subject
> > are highly appreciated :)
> 
> Welcome Julia ! Have you considered another interesting aspect : While
> Libre software is a great start-up enabler there are very few women
> entrepreneurs in this line. I would love to know why though.

The company I work for (Sine Nomine Associates) does development and support 
for OpenAFS and some other open source projects (whatever clients need) and 
was started by a married couple, so I'd count the wife half of the couple as a 
woman entrepreneur in FOSS.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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