Tux Machines Was Always a Women-Run Site (the Real Voices of GNU/Linux, Not Political Props in Corporate Events)
Women in FOSS? Oh, they do exist!
So yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Tux Machines and my wife is publicity-shy (she tends to get viciously attacked by jealous, insecure men for speaking out), so I will write about this myself. Tux Machines is - and always was - women-led. Even though I help around with the site, as texstar helped Susan back in the days, the site's chief editor was always a woman.
When people say things like, "but there are no women in FOSS!" they deliberately overlook or fail to count women who are active and contribute a lot. That in itself might be indicative of overt sexism - as if women who do a lot don't actually do a lot (or anything at all).
It takes far more than to put on a "Fedora" or "Mozilla" t-shirt to actually contribute to Free software. Corporate "diversity" is more of a marketing/PR gimmick than real, genuine diversity. That Debian and Fedora (and even GNOME) people so viciously attack my wife and my mother speaks volumes. All they are willing to promote is some shaman who knows nothing about GNU/Linux and never even used it. █