About 500 of the nearly 600 people who attended free open-source programming workshops in the last year were women. Why were the numbers so different from what we usually see? Okay, for one thing, the workshops, which mostly occurred in the Bay area, were aimed at women, if not exclusively for them, so that obviously helped. But according to Railbridge, which contacted us with a heads up about the
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