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

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Hi Julia :)

I'm currently working with open hardware modules developed by women:
Leah Buechley: http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/
Ladyada: http://www.ladyada.net/about.html

Fun stuff and could come in handy for ref. for your paper.

see ya!
~d

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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