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. Even compared to the rest of the IT industry, the gender ratio was several times worse.