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Bruce Perens (see "Bruce Perens" on Wikipedia) is an extremely prominent member of the Open Source community.

He has been involved in a number of incidents related to women in open source.

LWN "women in open source" discussion"

In a LWN thread in 2009, he underestimated the number of women in FLOSS, made some problematic statements about the social capacity of people with an autism spectrum disorder, argued that he was equally affected by sexism/harassment, and conflated feminist women in open source with each other.

In response, the Geek Feminism blog called on women to "tell Bruce Perens you exist". Many members of the Geek Feminism community, as well as other women in open source, dived into the discussion, which turned out to be one of the high/low points of 2009 for women in open source (along with the Mark Shuttleworth at Linuxcon incident and MikeeUSA).

The effect of this thread was described by Skud in a blog post, My Second Shift:

That LWN thread with Bruce Perens? That ate a day of my life. A whole day. I talked to some of the other women involved afterwards, and I’m not the only one. Between the anger and frustration, the difficulty of following the damn thread without a comments RSS feed, and having to express ourselves clearly and provide supporting documentation (over and over and over again), we lost perhaps hundreds of woman-hours that could otherwise have been spent, oh, I dunno, WRITING SOME DAMN SOFTWARE.

Involvement in MikeeUSA incidents

He was one of the people MikeeUSA complained to after the deletion of his Sourceforge account during the Geek feminism harassment incident, although it appears Perens did not take any notice of Mikee's email.

Support of women in open source

Bruce Perens is listed as one of the Seed 100 Funders of the Ada Initiative. He is listed at the "Analytical Engineer" level. This means that he donated at least $1000 to the organization during the first major fund drive when it was founded.

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-Bruce Perens is an extremely prominent member of the Open Source community. see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Perens "Bruce Perens" on Wikipedia] He has been involved in a fairly small way in a couple geek feminist discussions:
+Bruce Perens (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Perens "Bruce Perens" on Wikipedia]) is an extremely prominent member of the Open Source community.
-* In a [http://lwn.net/Articles/348459/ LWN thread] in 2009, he underestimated the number of women in FLOSS, made some problematic statements about the social capacity of people with an [[autism spectrum disorder]], argued that he was equally affected by sexism/harassment, and offensively conflated women in Open Source with each other.  The effect of this thread was described by [[Skud]] in a blog post, [http://geekfeminism.org/2009/09/07/my-second-shift/ My Second Shift]:
+He has been involved in a number of [[Timeline of incidents|incidents]] related to women in open source.
+== LWN "women in open source" discussion" ==
+In a [http://lwn.net/Articles/348459/ LWN thread] in 2009, he underestimated the number of women in FLOSS, made some problematic statements about the social capacity of people with an [[autism spectrum disorder]], argued that he was equally affected by sexism/harassment, and conflated feminist women in open source with each other.
+In response, the [[Geek Feminism blog]] called on women to "[http://geekfeminism.org/2009/08/27/women-in-floss-tell-bruce-perens-you-exist/ tell Bruce Perens you exist]".  Many members of the Geek Feminism community, as well as other women in open source, dived into the discussion, which turned out to be one of the high/low points of 2009 for women in open source (along with the [[Mark Shuttleworth at Linuxcon]] incident and [[MikeeUSA]]).
+The effect of this thread was described by [[Skud]] in a blog post, [http://geekfeminism.org/2009/09/07/my-second-shift/ My Second Shift]:
 : That LWN thread with Bruce Perens? That ate a day of my life. A whole day. I talked to some of the other women involved afterwards, and I’m not the only one. Between the anger and frustration, the difficulty of following the damn thread without a comments RSS feed, and having to express ourselves clearly and provide supporting documentation (over and over and over again), we lost perhaps hundreds of woman-hours that could otherwise have been spent, oh, I dunno, WRITING SOME DAMN SOFTWARE.
+== Involvement in MikeeUSA incidents ==
-* He was one of the people [[MikeeUSA]] complained to after the deletion of his Sourceforge account during the [[Geek feminism harassment]] incident, although it appears Perens did not take any notice of Mikee's email.
-These have been mainly notable because of Perens's fame in the Open Source community.
+He was one of the people [[MikeeUSA]] complained to after the deletion of his Sourceforge account during the [[Geek feminism harassment]] incident, although it appears Perens did not take any notice of Mikee's email.
+== Support of women in open source ==
 Bruce Perens is listed as one of the [http://adainitiative.org/about-us/sponsors-and-supporters/seed-100-funders/ Seed 100 Funders] of the [http://adainitiative.org/ Ada Initiative]. He is listed at the "Analytical Engineer" level. This means that he donated at least $1000 to the organization during the first major fund drive when it was founded.