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> Me, too. It doesn't look like that. > But I suppose, you are also not a women struggeling in a sexist nerd IT world? I'm not a woman, I'm also not a sexist
by lostjohnny 7y ago
> Me, too.
It doesn't look like that.
> But I suppose, you are also not a women struggeling in a sexist nerd IT world?
I'm not a woman, I'm also not a sexist nerd.
And I know, having been a supporter of the free software since the mid 90s, having interacted with the first Luther Blisset group in Italy, having tried to build an Italian Linux distro in 1996 and been part in the hack community (I've been among the first to build and attend hack meetings conventions in Italy, you can read more about the first one here http://www.ecn.org/hackit98/faq.html http://www.ecn.org/hackit98/faq.html), that I've never met more women in tech than in the FSF circles.
There were literally no women in tech back then, but there were more than a few of them interested in being part of a socio-political revolutionary platform such as the free software philosophy.
I've personally taught a group of girls howto install Linux so they could teach to other people in the free Linux courses we gave in many community centers, back when Linux meant Slackware 1.0 (1.0.1 to be correct) and kernel 1.2.13.
I've been a teacher for Rails girls whose motto is "Our aim is to give tools and a community for women to understand technology and to build their ideas"
Because RMS and all the guys like him believed in inclusiveness and I believed it too, thanks to them.