[clug] Open Source Software's Dirty Little Secret

[Andrew Janke]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 18:22, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
> What is your experience with women in these
> projects, either +ve or -ve?

+ve   (overwhelmingly so).

Have maintained/written/documented medical image analysis code for the
past 12 years or so. ('apt-get install minc-tools' and friends).

Haven't noticed any trends where differing genders tend to do
different parts (documentation/coding/etc). Split of the major 2
genders (of which we know there are 5) tends to be 70% male, 30%
female.

Note that this is research based code so most of the users/coders are
research post-docs and the likes.

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