Women and Linux

Happy Women's Day!! 

http://www.linuxchix.org/

LinuxChix is a community for women who like Linux and Free Software, and for women and men who want to support women in computing. The membership ranges from novices to experienced users, and includes professional and amateur programmers, system administrators and technical writers.

http://ubuntu-women.org/

Ubuntu-Women is a team functioning under Ubuntu to provide a platform and encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu-Linux, a Debian based free and open-source GNU/Linux software. Our main role will be along the lines of supplementing and being the stepping stone toward the larger Ubuntu-Linux world. Membership is open to all. 

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO.html

This article explains some of the difficulties and biases women face in the Linux community and examines various strategies for addressing those difficulties in order to encourage more participation by women.

http://women.debian.org/home/

This is the homepage of the Debian Women Project, a subproject of the Debian Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Women

GNOME Women is a group dedicated to providing encouragement for women to contribute to GNOME, a free and open-source GNU/Linux and Unix desktop suite.

http://community.kde.org/KDE_Women

KDE Women is a group of women in the KDE community. We are here to help increase the number of women in Open Source and to support each other.

http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2010/Schedule/Sunday

This years LibrePlanet Conference of the 'Free Software Foundation' which is to be held from March 19th-21st in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Harvard University Science Center has a special session for Women - check out the 1030 Hrs presentation on 21st Mar.