Honestly, this is horrible. It's actually the kind of stuff that I find pushes women out of open source projects a lot of the time. "You're different. You ne

Honestly, this is horrible. It's actually the kind of stuff that I find pushes women out of open source projects a lot of the time. "You're different. You need special help." Women, like men, like being respected for their work. Singling them out and treating them like they're some kind of different species, usually exacerbated by unwanted sexual attention, seems to be the major annoyance. A rant of mine from a few years ago, called "Human Interface Guidelines": http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1051 http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1051 (Note that the "full ack" comment in there is from KDE e.V.'s former president, Eva Brucherseifer.) Edit: Sidenote, these things also tend to ignore the more fundamental issue: most OSS contributors are computer scientists. There are less women studying computer science. If you want to figure out how to get more women in OSS, you have to take a step back and figure out how to get more women in CS.