this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
1153 points (93.1% liked)

linuxmemes

20880 readers
7 users here now

I use Arch btw

Sister communities:

Community rules

  1. Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
  2. Be civil
  3. Post Linux-related content
  4. No recent reposts

Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
1153
Modern Linux workflow (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
93 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

have you been to an open source convention?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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