Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project
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> Datum: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:23:57 +0000
> Von: Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org>
> An: debian-project@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 07:05:57PM +0200, "Steffen M?ller" wrote:
> > > Francesca Ciceri <madamezou@debian.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > ------
> > > > The Debian Project welcomes and encourages participation by
> > > > everyone. It doesn't matter how you define yourself or how others
> > > > define you: we welcome you. We welcome contributions from
> > > > everyone within their areas of expertise, as long as they can be
> > > > constructive members of our community. While much of the work of
> > > > the Project is technical in nature, we will value and encourage
> > > > contributions to the Project from those with expertise in
> > > > non-technical areas and welcome such contributors as part of our
> > > > community.
> > > > ------
> > >
> > > Works for me, with or without the differences mentioned in other
> > > replies.
> >
> > Yip, even though I would be tempted to leave out "within their areas
> > of expertise". Something is constructive or not. Even a question to
> > someone writing a documentation can be constructive.
>
> so that would be something like "constructive contributions to the
> Project in non-technical areas"
> micro suggestion: s/will value/values/
>
> the rest of the statment is in present tense; let's not use future tense
> for how much we will value and encourage participation; "will" is to
> much like "try"; do or do not :)
Here a summary of what I read so far and some extra changes I liked. The first two sentences of Francesca are my favorite and the most important, I think. I am not sure how much of the rest is needed, anyway:
The Debian Project welcomes and encourages participation by
everyone. It doesn't matter how you define yourself or how others
define you: we welcome you. We welcome contributions from
everyone
s/within their areas of expertise,//
as long as they
s/can/interact/
constructive
s/ members of/ly with/
our community. While much of the work
s/of the Project/for our project/
is technical in nature, we
s/will // (Luca)
value and encourage contributions to
s/the Project/Debian/
from those with expertise in
s/non-technical/other/ (Stefano)
areas and welcome such contributors
s/as part of/in/
our community.
Cheers,
Steffen
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