Re: Why no Academic discounts taken up at ApacheCon? Come and help us address this at Barcamp Re: ACUS registration report [20091021]

2009/10/22 Ross Gardler <[email protected]>:
> There has, to date, not been a single use of the academic discount
> code for ApacheCon. If you care about this then come to our BarCamp
> session on community outreach at ApacheCon -
> http://barcamp.org/BarCampApache

I'm at the Google Summer of Code mentor summit. I am very surprised at
the number of people from other projects who are based at
universities, I'd say about 40%. So clearly there are plenty of people
in other projects who are from the academic sector (admittedly this is
probably skewed by the nature of GSoC).

At the time of writing I'm sitting in a session on women in open
source. The interesting thing is that not only do we have less
academics than I would like but we have less women than others too.

Ross