Re: Questions and comments regarding Debian Women

[Martin Bagge / brother <martin@bagge.nu>]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Margarita Manterola wrote:

> 2011/4/25 Mònica Ramírez <monica@probeta.net>:
> > About becoming a DD, I'm not trying to be a DD for two reasons: the
> > first one is that I don't feel sure enough with the required skills,
>
> I think this is a common issue for us women. The geek feminism wiki
> names this the "Impostor Syndrome" [1].  I guess most of us have felt
> it at some point.  And it's important to fight it when you realize you
> are suffering from it.
>
> [1]:  http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
>
> > the second reason is that I'm only maintaining a few packages.
>
> I checked your qa page [2], and it says that you currently maintain 4
> packages.  Even though this is fairly recent, you might consider
> applying to be a Debian Maintainer [3] soon.
>
> [2]: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=monica@probeta.net
> [3]: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer

4 packages is 4 more packages than I have ever built and I am a DD. Under 
the non packaging clause and so on but still.
Having provided thoughts and things to the project for some years and then 
the project offered me to have the voting rights I just couldn't resist.

Don't underexstimate your skills, they 
are there and the process is not constructed to make you feel like you are 
dumb, rather the opposite - show your talent and for the project to know 
that you have the ins and outs that are /necessary/. All the extras are 
just a bonus for us.

(Just adding, avoid follow ups.)
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