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[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

have you been to an open source convention?

[-] Metz@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

Yes, multiple. I'm also in multiple FOSS user and developer groups.

But there is no need to believe me. You can ask Github. https://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/

Along other dimensions, representation is stronger: 1% of respondents identify as transgender (including 9% of women in open source), and 7% identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, or another minority sexual orientation.

The proportion of the general population is 0.5 to 0.7%. So yes, it is very slightly higher, but not in the way that all the memes have been trying to portray it lately.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 13 points 9 months ago

I would say programmer circles tend to be progressive as well, so some over-representation makes sense. I mean, where do we expect trans women to want to work?

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

It's probably more of where one can be expected to be open about not being 'normative'

[-] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It seems to have become fashionable to over-hype it among younger more casual Linux users. Hence things like "Linux/Unix socks".

It's quite heavily pushed in Discord servers where you'll be asked to choose whether you're a "catboy" or "femboy".

It's quite irritating. Some of those 'femboys' can be quite homophobic funnily enough which is infuriating.

[-] itslilith 2 points 9 months ago

9% of women in open source is a massive over representaion

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