Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 19
Today in 2009 began the Free Software Foundation mini-summit on Women in Free Software. It was just one project in a wave of activity that rebirthed and set a regular schedule for GNOME’s outreach program which grew into a successful and lasting project. It was one of the first official acknowledgements of systemic sexism the Free Software world.[1] Even compared to the rest of the IT industry, the gender ratio was several times worse.