Interview: Elizabeth Krumbach of LinuxChix
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| As women become more involved with open source communities, it's
| important that their voices be heard... Read on to find out how she
| became involved with computers, why she likes to buy equipment online,
| and her advice for women contemplating involved in open source
| communities.
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http://dot.kde.org/1158867833/
Some related links I could find (other than the ones in the page above).
GNOME and Google reach out to women
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| GNOME's Women's Summer Outreach Program (WSOP) is underway, with twice
| the number of projects originally scheduled, thanks to Google's
| generosity. The program has not only brought a few more women into
| the GNOME fold, but it seems to have jump-started efforts to actively
| recruit female developers within other open source projects as well.
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http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/10/2219218&from=rss
GNOME needs women
http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/06/15/2054202.shtml?tid=35&tid=25
Ubuntu:
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| Ubuntu-Women is a team functioning under Ubuntu to provide a platform
| and encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu-Linux, a Debian
| based free and open-source GNU/Linux software. Our main role will be
| along the lines of supplementing and being the stepping stone towardt
| he larger Ubuntu-Linux world. Membership is open to all.
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http://ubuntu-women.org/
Debian:
http://women.debian.org/
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| A large portion of the Fedora userbase is made up of women. They are
| often under-represented within the community, with many people not
| even realizing how big a share of the community they are. The Fedora
| Women program aims to improve that representation and to provide a forum
| for the women of the Fedora Community.
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Women
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| Open-source project Fedora has launched Fedora Women, a forum and
| mailing list, in an effort to encourage more female developers to
| participate in its community.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6100569.html
Women geeks bag top two software contest prizes
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| In third place were five other young women - Chethana A., Chythra J.S.,
| Divya A.C., Sandhya N. Bhatt, and Sumalatha K.P. - working on localisation
| of Free Software and Open Source in Indian languages from the Shri
| Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore. Their goal: to develop
| a native language interface for GNU/Linux operating system at thec
| onsole level.
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http://www.teluguportal.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7890
http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=23248
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