%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2009 %T Editorial: Women in Open Source (June 2009) %A Dru Lavigne %A Rikki Kite %X Whether you look at industry studies, online articles, or perhaps even around your own company, you'll see that women make up a small percent of the people working in free/libre and open source software (F/LOSS). Over the years there's been a growing interest in why so few women participate in this rapidly growing community and, more importantly, what can be done to help encourage more participation. Fortunately, members of the community - both male and female - are actively ramping up their efforts to attract more women to the F/LOSS community. Resources such as LinuxChix.org, the Geek Feminism Wiki, as well as publications, blogs, and articles written by and about women, draw attention to this growing, influential group of F/LOSS participants. Events, such as the Women in Open Source track at the Southern California Linux Expo, help women network and connect with other members of the F/LOSS community, while also increasing their visibility. In this issue of the Open Source Business Resource, innovative, energetic women discuss their specific projects, what other women in the field are doing, and their efforts to promote F/LOSS to people within their communities and internationally. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 06/2009 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/255 %N June 2009 %9 Editorial %1 Talent First Network Dru Lavigne is a technical writer and IT consultant who has been active with open source communities since the mid-1990s. She writes regularly for O'Reilly and DNSStuff.com and is the author of the books BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics. %2 LinuxPro Magazine Rikki Kite is the Associate Publisher of Linux Pro Magazine and Ubuntu User and writes a blog that highlights women in open source. She is former editor for Sys Admin magazine, UnixReview.com, The Journal of Linux Technology, and The Perl Journal. She received her MSJ from the University of Kansas in May 2008 and wrote her thesis on women in open source.