I also recall BSD staffing their booths (and the floor) with numerous women in red devil outfits, most of whom were quite technical.
There's Linux Journal's Carlie Fairchild, who's intelligent, informed, and beautiful, and has left a slew of broken hearts in her wake through no fault of her own.
There are a handful of other women in the Linux / Free Software community (it's overwhelmingly male), of whom Val Aurora and Erinn Clark come to mind (both have been involved in women/tech movements and between LinuxChix and Debian-Women there are numerous others).
But yeah, at trade shows, particularly those geared at suits and sales, the ornamental variety tends to be more common.
That said: I've found plenty of booths staffed by men who had little to no technical depth as well. To say nothing of, say, tech support lines.
There's Linux Journal's Carlie Fairchild, who's intelligent, informed, and beautiful, and has left a slew of broken hearts in her wake through no fault of her own.
There are a handful of other women in the Linux / Free Software community (it's overwhelmingly male), of whom Val Aurora and Erinn Clark come to mind (both have been involved in women/tech movements and between LinuxChix and Debian-Women there are numerous others).
But yeah, at trade shows, particularly those geared at suits and sales, the ornamental variety tends to be more common.
That said: I've found plenty of booths staffed by men who had little to no technical depth as well. To say nothing of, say, tech support lines.