[Kde-women] Long reads, but good food for thought

[Claudia Rauch]

On 8 February 2013 22:27, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 06, 2013 05:16:50 PM Claudia Rauch wrote:
>> Just quickly wanted to share two articles that I found quite
>> interesting. The second one is an essay/answer to the first one, so if
>> you want to read them, read the article by Joseph Reagle first.
>
> Before reading these articles:
>
> FOSDEM has a larger (perceived by me, anyway) proportion of women attending
> than any other Free Software conference I've been at. People also bring their
> kids.

Yes, that was my impression, too, in previous years. FOSDEM is
somewhat different from Akademy, though. Much larger, many, many
different projects, not just one.  I still wonder how we can reach out
to get more women involved with KDE.

> There were two talks at FOSDEM about culture and community which I didn't see
> but I'm told were good and inspiring: Leslie Hawthorn's talk and another
> called "Assholes are killing your project". Might be worth following up with
> the recordings of those two.

Thanks for the tips, will take a look at those.



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