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Offering women free public repositories will expose more women to the open-source community. The idea is, of course, that they will slowly become more comfortab
by nsmartt 13y ago
Offering women free public repositories will expose more women to the open-source community. The idea is, of course, that they will slowly become more comfortable with the community and begin to open their work.
This could go either way, but I suspect this idea is correct. IMO, this was a good move by GitHub.
- krapp 13y agoThe idea may or may not have been correct, but it seems to me the implementation also reinforces negative stereotypes about women. The Ada initiative blog is quoted as saying that fear is a real impediment to women approaching the open source community, so this probably will help. But it also implies that female coders as a group have a reason to be ashamed of the quality of their work, and that they don't really belong in the community.