Browser-based access to SL, open source & gender
Posted on February 15, 2008
Filed under Conversations, Harbingers, News, Research, Trends
A young British woman (yeh!) is developing AjaxLife, a web-based application for connecting to Second Life from within your web browser. She’s surveying us on what we’d like to see. Do the survey here. Great idea (the survey and the project). I’m cheering women on is this domain because it is overwhelmingly male in culture and practice. Read these gender reports from the EU and FLOSS (Free/libre open source software).
“Women are actively (if unconsciously) excluded rather than passively disinterested. The effect lies within F/LOSS cultural and social arrangements. The exclusion happens among people who often do not mean to appear, and who do not interpret their own actions, as hostile to women. The effect is an outcome of the importance given to the individual as the sole carrier of agency. ”
Democracy?
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