One opportunity available to free software projects is the ability to right the wrongs that has made free-market modes of production so likely to institutionalize sexism. PBS has just published a great list of organizations and individual efforts related to this opportunity, like LinuxChix and devchix, which many people are already familiar with.

The women who work in the Northxsouth Developers Network also spend their time volunteering for groups that help the free software movement to grab this opportunity, like Birosca (which is mostly initiated by women from Latin America) and Gender Changers.