"List of women-dominated projects in FLOSS" article likely out of date.
Due to the Geek Feminism Wiki being in archival mode, this article is likely out of date, reflecting the state of the world circa 2009–2013.
You can copy this content elsewhere and update it, see Wikia:Licensing for details of the license.This page lists team FLOSS projects that are either:
- led by a woman or a team comprising mainly women; or
- developed primarily by women.
Precise statistics are hard to gather, but as a guide projects that meet these criteria are listed:
- have a Benevolent Dictator For Life (or equivalent technical leader) who is a woman;
- have a named leadership team/foundation committee etc that is > 50% women; or
- have > 50% of their patches contributed by women
Single-woman projects (projects with only one developer) are not listed.
Contents
Projects
In alphabetical order by project name.
Projects with a majority of women contributors
- Dreamwidth is a fork of LiveJournal's codebase with about 70% female contribution among those who disclosed their gender.
- Growstuff is an open source app to track planting and harvesting food, with about 60 developers, somewhat more than half of which are women
- The Organization for Transformative Works Archive Of Our Own software is GPL'd and is probably the largest predominantly-female open source project in existance, with about 150 contributors, almost all women.
Multi-developer projects with a woman technical lead
- Annodex was developed under the technical leadership of Silvia Pfeiffer, who continues as President of the Annodex Foundation.
- The Parrot virtual machine is developed under the technical leadership of Allison Randal.
See also
For individual women participating in Open Source, see List of women in Open Source
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