The sign outside the Apache Software Foundation headquarters should read: 
Women Programmers Wanted – Flexible hours - Little constructive direction - No Pay.

While some companies pay employees to write code and create bug reports, the open-source community thrives on the work of volunteers.  The Apache Software Foundation, responsible for the open-source Apache web server software and Debian, distributor of the Debian Linux distribution are both trying to encourage women to donate their time and expertise for the benefit of, well, Apache and Debian.  As reported by News.com:

Jean Anderson, who works on the Apache Derby database, said Monday that the list will provide a "supportive, encouraging forum to help women become more involved in ASF projects."

Helen Faulkner, a member of Debian Women, told ZDNet UK last year that the group offers advice to women on a variety of topics from how to install Debian to how to write a bug report.

All you women who dream about writing bug reports, installing software, and programming now have advocates and support from the open-source community.  Before you get carried away in your enthusiasm for writing bug reports let me remind you that some people get paid good money to do this kind of work.  It is more common today for professional women to make certain they are compensated fairly.  To rekindle the age-old “who is smarter“ debate, perhaps the lack of women contributing to open-source projects suggests that they have the intelligence required to calculate the value of their time, eh?

W.S.