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Date: 2009-07-30 01:29 pm (UTC)However, it's also worth considering that some open source projects are actively sexist, some are neutral and some are fairly hostile to most people but in a fashion that probably puts off women more than men.
An active problem is that there are never enough people to do everything, and the end result is that spare developers aren't available to tutor people. This may ultimately be a poor policy decision and seem excessively unfriendly to the stereotypical woman, but men don't necessarily think much differently.
Yes it *is* daunting getting the attitude of 'you want to help? fine - download some code and do it', but whilst that's possibly expressing a stereotypical male approach, it's not inherently sexist. Some of the projects I've seen using that approach appear to be very respectful of women with technical ability.