Women & Mozilla

Seems like it was a woman’s week…

This past week, articles about women and open source have just been pouring out all over the Web and the press – especially in France. What’s going on, are things finally starting to change?! Here are just some noticeable examples of what has appeared these past few days: The popular French woman’s magazine Femme Actuelle [...]

Open source needs more women, women react

Translated from Thierry Noisette’s French article published on ZDNet.fr, with the author’s authorization. Numbers are unflattering towards Open Source software: women represent 28% of proprietary software developers, against … 1,5 to 2% in Open Source software (see in particular the sources listed in Angela Byron (Drupal)’s excellent June presentation, PDF 139 pages: “Women in Open [...]