Re: where are the girls?

On Thursday 14 March 2002 04:59, Angela Veerhuis wrote: > hi, > > im an IT student from Australia, i am learning PHP as a side > project for one of my university subjects, as i looked at the > php documentation team meeting, i couldnt help but notice that > there were no females!!! > > i find it highly unusual to see such an important meeting and > no females involved, especially since females might be able to > input some ideas from a different perspective... just a > thought, maybe you could bring this up with someone involved > and find out what their thoughts are... > > a concerned but non-feminist female :) Hi Angela, Like many Open Source projects (and much of IT in general) few women participate. While we do have one female contributor, she could not make it to the meeting. --zak