Nők és a Linux, eddig nem igazán összetartozó fogalom volt. De tudtad, hogy a Debian, az Ubuntu és úgy általában a nagyobb disztrók mind-mind rendelkeznek női részleggel?

Ráadásul olvasható mindegyik híresebb Linuxos nő, lány önéletrajza, például a Anne Nicolas marketing diplomával rendelkezik, de mindig is a Linux vonzotta? Például a Redhat és most a Mandriva engineering directorja.

Egy hosszabb cikk a linuxos hölgyekről angolul tudóknak linkekkel:

Igazán tanulságos!

Women in Linux (or technology in general) has always been a rare breed. I have been very unsuccessful trying to make my female friends or family members getting interested in linux. So in my quest in getting more women interested in linux I have made this list of women who have actively contributed in linux community. This list doesn’t include women in just open source community (like Mitchell Baker of Mozilla Foundation) but more specifically women with notable contribution in linux community. This list is in no particular order.

Machtelt Garrels: Machtelt Garrels is a Linux veteran and freelance consultant/trainer. She is also a member of the Linux Documentation Project, where she initially found a fertile ground to make her work read throughout the world. She was invited last year to join the BSD Certification Group Advisory Board and shares her knowledge about organizing certifications, which she gathered as a Translation Coordinator for the Linux Professional Institute. In cooperation with a group of Dutch colleagues, she founded the OpenDoc Society last year, which is a non-profit organization that promotes the use of open standards and Open Document Standard (ODF) in particular. 

Pia Waugh: Pia Waugh is an Australian free software advocate, currently the president of the organization that runs Software Freedom Day and a former president and vice-president of Linux Australia.

Erinn Clark: A Debian developer as well as the leader and co-founder of Debian Women. She is also a build/release engineer.

Hanna Wallach: A GNOME and Debian developer who helped the GNOME foundation to get its Women’s Summer Outreach Program off the ground.

Amaya Rodrigo Sastre: A Debian developer and co-founder of Debian Women.

Celeste Lyn Paul: She is an interaction designer, researcher, and open source contributor. She also leads the KDE Usability Project, is a mentor for the OpenUsability Season of Usability, and is involved in Kubuntu Linux.

Eva Brucherseifer: Eva is an electrical engineer from Germany and a driving force behind the KDE-Women and KDE-Edu projects and the KDE-Solaris mailing list.

Anne Nicolas: Engineering director at Mandriva.

Pauline Middelink: Dutch Kernel hacker. Contributions is identd, IP-Masquerading and Automount/Autofs.

Kristen Carlson Accardi: Kristen Carlson Accardi is a Linux kernel developer who works for Intel Corporation. She has been a device driver developer since the 1990s and began concentrating on Linux in 2005. She maintains the PCI hot-plug subsystem in the Linux kernel. At least as of 2007, she was the only woman who was a subsystem maintainer for Linux. She lead the organization of the 2008 Linux Plumber’s Conference.

Val Henson: Valerie “Val” Henson is a Linux kernel hacker specializing in filesystem development. As of August 2008 she will be working for Red Hat.

Stormy Peters: Stormy Peters is the executive director (manager) of the GNOME Foundation. She has been involved in the GNOME community since 1999.

Ofcourse there are many more who deserve to be in this list, that I am not aware. If you know anyone, feel free mention them in your comments with source if possible.

There are also some Linux Women websites and organization out there that you might be interested in:

Debian Women   http://women.debian.org/home/
Fedora Women   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Women
Gnome Women   http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen    
Ubuntu Women   http://www.ubuntu-women.org/
LinuxChix              http://www.linuxchix.org/

And last but not least, a good guide to get women interested in Linux: http:

//tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/