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Any evidence to support this?
by Amara on Monday 04/Sep/2006, @02:17

Does anyone have a link, or other evidence that this seeming divide of the community encourages more women to get involved? Any statistics?

IMO, it seemed that the aims of the FSF and projects like this are not only to develop great software, but also create a community, a united community. Not one where certain members belong to women.kde.org and certain members belong to asians.kde.org, russians.kde.org, pinksocks.kde.org and the rest go to community.kde.org.

I also don't see how this is much different from developer.kde.org. Apart from the sparse uses of the word "women" in a few places, theres no male-oriented content in developer.kde.org to make such a difference. Unless of course, women.kde.org exists just to make women developers feel better and "separated" from the rest of the "male macho" community, in which case its nothing serious and is fine.

Anyway, any evidence would be appreciated, I really am curious. :)

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