Maureen Duffy and Hannah Wallach have started Gnome Women in the spirit of Debian Women. Right now it is just the irc channel #gnome-women on the gimp.net servers but the idea will be to expand it to a web site, mailing list and blog aggregator in the future.

If one hasn’t notice there is a disproportionate amount of men to women within the GNOME community (and in techology in general). The reasons for this can be debated but one of the causes could be that in such a male-dominated field it is hard for women to have a voice and feel like they can contribute. It is the hope that Gnome Women will be a catalyst for more involvement of women in GNOME. I know they are out there and I have talked to a few; now it is time for them to stand up and be counted. After all, how can we create a desktop for the masses if there is only representation for half of our audience?

With that said I encourage women who use, develop for or in some way contribute to GNOME to join irc and help out. Feel free to contact me for any info.

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