[clug] Open Source Software's Dirty Little Secret

[Jack Kelly]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Brendan Jurd <direvus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right, I've seen this effect at work too.  And it seems to me to be
> the real meat of the issue.  We're all standing around wringing our
> hands about how to encourage women into FOSS when this is precipitated
> by something that begins AT BIRTH and continues right up through
> schooling?
>
> I feel that by the time a generation of girls have made it through
> that filtering process, there are going to be so few real geeks left
> among them that even if FOSS was the very model of asexual behaviour,
> it wouldn't be enough to generate a critical mass of female
> participation.

So perhaps we can step in at the high school level and offer some kind
of program, like an out-of-school activity? Or is it too late, even at
the low high-school level?

-- Jack