Free and Open Source Software gets new 'poster girl'
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| 'I never felt the difference (of being a woman). People tell me I've
| been very lucky,' she said in a hall so dominated by young male geeks
| that you'd be lucky to see 20 women in 750 seats. She said the
| corporation she works with, IBM, has a couple of more women working
| on the kernel.
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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/india/article_1226891.php/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_gets_new_poster_girl
Related:
An interview with Linux Australia's cover girl
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| It can be tough being a woman in an industry where almost four in
| five people are men. But that's just another challenge that Pia Waugh
| enjoys, alongside juggling her own consultancy, a research position
| at Macquarie University, running Linux Australia and Software
| Freedom International, and being otherwise heavily involved in
| the industry.
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| ...I ended up falling back into IT because it's just a natural fit for me
| and I love technical work, and then I got into Linux and that propelled me
| more into IT.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1585810409;fp;2;fpid;4
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