Re: Fwd: (Debian's Two Choices) The influx of women and the outflux of men. The end of debian as a distro and it's emergance as a women's rights pulpit.
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 08:16:14AM +0200, annabelle tully wrote:
> I'm not against Debian Women at all. I am against the image it can
> give. The basic points of Debian Women you wrote are great, but I fear
> DW might not reflect those points enough.
Did you actually read my email? Especially:
> >But more importantly, it's an impression that's *false*. Many of the
> >participants in d-w are active in technical aspects of the project.
> >Several are in the new maintainer queue. We have more women involved in
> >Debian than we've ever had before. So it's a problem if d-w gives the
> >impression of being a bunch of people uninterested in doing anything
> >technical. Certainly, getting rid of the project would be one way of
> >solving that. Alternatively, we could fix the impression that people get
> >in order to ensure that it reflects reality.
> >
> >So, as someone who's observed this impression, it would be really
> >helpful if you could tell us what gave you that impression and what
> >could be done to rectify it. Lists of maintained packages? Interviews?
> >Daily emails with bugs closed by women? Seriously, communicating the
> >goals of d-w with the rest of the project is important and I'm sure that
> >nobody is happy with people getting the wrong idea.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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