TheAge: IT group to fight sexism

"But the success of the January event follows controversy in December when organisers of the Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne were forced to apologise to attendees and sponsors after a male speaker used "softcore" pornographic images to illustrate a presentation on ACME::Playmate, a humorous Perl module."

"And in October, American Linux kernal developer Valerie Henson protested the decision by a Wikipedia editor to delete her entry in the community-maintained online encyclopedia by staging an "outing" of herself on a spoof website entitled "Val Henson is a man"."

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