In FLOSS nobody cares who you are. Not your sex, your gender, not even your real identity. All that matters is the value you provide, mostly in the form of code

In FLOSS nobody cares who you are. Not your sex, your gender, not even your real identity. All that matters is the value you provide, mostly in the form of code. Those who contribute good code are lauded, others - not so much. If you are seeking things like recognition, acknowledgement or other ways to entertain your vanity, you should really join some other community. FLOSS could use more engineers and fewer activists who contribute only to the community, not to the code or documentation/teaching materials. Also, copyleft communities are not dying. They are fine and growing.