Last summer at OSCON Kirrily Robert gave a keynote which discussed gender and open source projects. The keynote itself was interesting (I only read about it fro

Last summer at OSCON Kirrily Robert gave a keynote which discussed gender and open source projects. The keynote itself was interesting (I only read about it from slides - didn't see it), and an O'Reilly Radar write-up about it led to a long and varied set of comments about "booth babes" and girls hired/invited to socialize at parties. For anyone interested, here's some links: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/oscon-standing-out-in-the-crow.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/oscon-standing-out-in-the-c... http://infotrope.net/blog/2009/07/25/standing-out-in-the-crowd-my-oscon-keynote/ http://infotrope.net/blog/2009/07/25/standing-out-in-the-cro...