%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2009 %T An International Look at Women in Open Source %A Cathy Malmrose %X When attending conferences, working with various open source teams, and generally interacting with people in the open source world, we see women as a small representative minority. The disparity leaves us wondering: "How to activate the other 50% of the population?". The question, "How do we include more women?" has been asked many times and answered in many ways. Cathy Malmrose, CEO of ZaReason, a Linux hardware company, stated, "possibly the most immediately effective solution is to showcase women internationally and their contributions. By simply talking about what women are doing all over the world, it creates an atmosphere of acceptance, encouraging more women to try contributing, no matter where they are located or what their situation is. Our goal is to normalize the experience of having women on open source projects". This issue of OSBR is a powerful effort to do just that. This article provides a glance at women in open source internationally. It is by no means comprehensive and is based solely on a random sampling of women who are currently contributing. The goal of this article is to give you a sense of the breadth and depth of women contributing to open source. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 06/2009 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/256 %N June 2009 %9 Articles %1 ZaReason Cathy Malmrose is a hardware builder in Berkeley, California. In the shadow of the University of California at Berkeley, Cathy is building a Linux hardware company to supply laptops, desktops, and servers to open source users. She grew up near Redmond and spent her early adult years in Austin. Her background includes working in education and software development along with founding a non-profit to support the effective use of technology in education. Cathy is currently enjoying working with the big OEMs in China and the many Linux contributors internationally. Her goal is to build hardware that showcases the superior power and effectiveness of Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.