Kernel dev sets out on an uncharted path

[ Thanks to Sam
Varghese for this link. ]

“Valerie Aurora has many achievements to her name. In a
world where FOSS developers are overwhelmingly men, she has been a
Linux kernel developer for the last 10 years. She’s been a
consultant, speaker, writer, founder of companies and advocated for
women in open source.

“Which means she has survived after reading the flame-infested
Linux kernel mailing lists for that period – a tough task for even
the hardiest.

“The field in which Aurora (pic below) operates is an unfriendly
one – the proportion of women in FOSS is abysmally low by any
standards. And the FOSS community’s attitudes towards women are not
exactly welcoming.

“At the recent Australian national Linux conference in Brisbane,
which a much larger number of women than usual attended, keynote
speaker Mark Pesce violated the conference anti-harassment policy
by using sexual images in his talk; late last year, Apache employee
Noirin Shirley was allegedly sexually assualted. These are but two
of numerous incidents over the years.”

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