Interesting Link

[kerravonsen]

I know an interest in Linux doesn't necessarily mean an interest in Comp Sci, but I figure there will be an overlap, thus many of you will find the following page brings a smile:
http://www.slideshare.net/terriko/how-does-biology-explain-the-low-numbers-of-women-in-cs-hint-it-doesnt

Comments

[feathertail]

That's pretty funny. ^.^ I've got to show it to my (Linux-using) girlfriend.

They've been talking about this kind of thing on Planet Ubuntu lately. I don't know if any of the bloggers there feel that way (that women are bad at CS), but a lot of the commenters sure do, as did one person that somebody linked to. He wrote a really long, rambling essay that basically said "Women are bad at CS, and that's why so few of them work on F/OSS," and one of my favorite bloggers took him to task for it, here.

I think the Ubuntu Women group did a good job of pointing out how uncomfortable it is to be in the minority, for anyone anywhere. And how a lot of the men working on F/OSS aren't so much mean as they just don't know how to behave, but that some of them are just plain mean, too. This was in a really good How-To called "HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux."

Sorry about the linkspam. >.>b This is what came to mind though, if you haven't already seen any of it.

[seekingferret]

A friend of mine wrote this:

http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0901/pages/geeks/geeks.html