Hi, Of course the one scene can’t do that. However I do suppose this could be a ‘personal’ film, because it clearly takes the perspective of the filmer— And that’s a good thing Any good documentary features an awareness of the film maker and her or his role in what is happening. that doesn’t mean it couldn’t represent LGM—it’s probably a better road to take than to try and make *the* film.
I think the this film looks absolutely wonderful, And I think this aesthetic could be very helpful in attracting people to Libre Graphics I have a qualm though, in this edit, it is not very clear just what these people are doing. Just how are they reclaiming their tools? What tools? Now the impression I get is: nice shots of interesting looking people (though I do miss the women too) While I think one should aim for: Nice shots of interesting looking people who are working hard to make design technology more accessible (or however you want to phrase the goal of Libre Graphics) So I really like the starting point, but I think it can be taken a step further! Sorry if that sounds patronising :) take care Eric Op 15 jan 2011, om 12:06 heeft Jakub Szypulka het volgende geschreven: > Femke, > > the film definitely is not the one-and-only report, but I don't see > how one 3 second scene "clearly marks it as a personal film". I was a > participant, as were the dozens of other people visible in the film. > I'd be disappointed were the film doomed personal and thus > disadvantaged in the pool of representations of the Libre Graphics > Meeting. > > Jakub > > 2011/1/15 Femke Snelting <[email protected]>: >> Hello all, hello Jakub! >> >> Thanks for making the film Jakub, it is very nice and the tiny scene with >> yourself in the hotel mirror clearly marks it as a personal film, not the >> one-and-only report. The questions it sparked off about representation are a >> bit larger than your work alone, and I am glad they came up now we are >> starting to prepare the sixth edition of LGM. >> >>>> e) We're still way ahead of a lot of other F/LOSS events in terms of >>>> straight-up, ratio-based representation (never mind the subjective >>>> value of different kinds of participation and representation, which is >>>> a whole other, very long discussion). >> >> With only 1 woman on stage in 2006, 4 in 2007, 3 in 2008 and 2 in 2009 LGM >> has not been doing much better than FOSDEM, OSCON and GUADEC in those same >> years. In the mean time, many F/LOSS related projects have realised this is >> a problem and decided to develop activities to track and change the numbers >> -- see links below. >> >> I am convinced that the quality of Libre Graphics software has everything to >> gain from actively diversifying participation. Through it's generally >> friendly character and amazing collection of very different projects, >> involving many nationalities, gathering experience with open standards, >> localization; negotiating technical and cultural questions ... LGM should >> actually be leading the list! >> >> Addressing participation and representation becomes more relevant now the >> community starts to grow and clearly will continue to do so. Bringing up the >> uneven male/female ratio is only scratching the surface of what the actual >> conditions for an inclusive community might be and it is boring to have to >> do a headcount. But sometimes brute force creates awareness and than opens >> up the possibility to acknowledge that *all of us* bring gender to the >> meeting, not only if you wear a hat to mark it ;-) >> >>>> f) Every year, we do better. <anecdote> From my first LGM (Montreal, >>>> 2007) to now, there have been huge changes in terms of the number of >>>> women attending, participating and talking. The event feels more and >>>> more inclusive every time, which is great. It's a far cry from what I >>>> perceived when I walked into the lecture hall at the Polytechnique andg >>>> saw what appeared to be a hundred or so men and maybe two women. >>>> </anecdote> >> >> This change did not happen automatically. For Brussels 2010 we worked with >> gnome-women, debian-women, LinuxChix and other activist groups to locate and >> invite women involved in Libre Graphics. We wrote e-mails to women we knew >> were active in LG, but never had considered participating. We specifically >> targeted support to women speakers through funding and lodging. Also the >> grant from the OIF helped widen the scope of participants. We made sure that >> volunteer-teams were mixed and replacing T-shirts by aprons was not an >> accident either. >> >>>> g) +1 on Prokoudine's point. Maybe looking at the ratio is a bit of a >>>> brute force type of tactic which really doesn't necessarily take into >>>> account the actual impact of women in the event and the community. >> >> This might be true, but than the question is: How do we make sure that their >> impact is equally visible? >> >> Femke >> >> >> - Free Software Foundation, recommendations from the womens caucus: >> http://www.fsf.org/news/recommendations-from-the-womens-caucus >> - Kirrily Robbins, Standing Out in the Crowd: >> http://www.oscon.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/10173 >> - Python foundation diversity statement: >> http://www.python.org/community/diversity >> - Gnome Outreach Program for Women: http://projects.gnome.org/outreach/women >> - Debian Women Mentoring Program: http://women.debian.org/mentoring >> - FLOSSPOLS (EU study about the societal impact of F/LOSS. A few years old, >> but still relevant) D17 - Gender: Policy Recommendations >> http://flosspols.org/deliverables/FLOSSPOLS-D17-Gender_Policy_Recommendations.pdf >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CREATE mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create >> > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
