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This article was nominated in November 2009 by Skud.

Overview

Dreamwidth is a journalling platform, running on code forked from the LiveJournal codebase in late 2008. As a website, it has a diversity statement that explicitly welcomes people of all backgrounds. As an open source project, it is one of only two large projects in the world with majority female contributors. (The other is Archive Of Our Own.)

Vital statistics

As of May 2009:

Languages: Perl, Javascript
Lines of code: 210k (not counting comments/whitespace)
Number of code contributors: 34
Proportion of female code contributors: 75%
Number of commits to date: ~900
Number of releases to date: ~30

More stats/details can be found on this Google spreadsheet.

Contributors

Female contributors to the project include:

Denise Paolucci

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 == Overview ==
-[http://www.dreamwidth.org/ Dreamwidth] is a journalling platform, running on code forked from the LiveJournal codebase in late 2008.  As a website, it has a [http://www.dreamwidth.org/legal/diversity diversity statement] that explicitly welcomes people of all backgrounds.  As an open source project, it is one of only two large projects in the world with majority female contributors.  (The other is [[Archive Of Our Own]].)
+[http://www.dreamwidth.org/ Dreamwidth] is a journalling platform, running on code forked from the LiveJournal codebase in late 2008. As a website, it has a [http://www.dreamwidth.org/legal/diversity diversity statement] that explicitly welcomes people of all backgrounds. As an open source project, it is one of only two large projects in the world with majority female contributors. (The other is [[Archive Of Our Own]].)
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 == Further reading ==
 * [http://infotrope.net/blog/2009/03/25/ada-lovelace-day-two-ground-breaking-open-source-projects/ Ada Lovelace Day: Two Ground-breaking Open Source Projects]
 * [http://damned-colonial.dreamwidth.org/26119.html Survey of female Dreamwidth contributors]
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