Recently, somebody on IRC mentioned a discussion on GNOME's foundation-list mailing list, which I thought people here might find interesting. Anne �stergaard kicked it off with a post about the lack of women in GNOME and encouraging GNOME people to try and do something about it.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-March/msg00007.html The discussion reminds me a bit of the discussion on debian-vote around March of last year, where people were saying things along the lines of "yes, it's a problem, but we're not being sexist and we don't know what to do about it". I think GNOME has many of the same problems that Debian has: - an aggressive/negative culture, especially on mailing lists - secondary status to translators/documenters etc. (as opposed to packagers in the case of Debian and coders in the case of GNOME) - difficulty in making new contributors welcome One interesting thing about GNOME is the GNOME Love project, which was started specifically to encourage new contributors and help them find ways in which they can help -- something which I think Debian Women is good at. The main thing I found when searching for information about it were the mailng list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love and this announcement of GNOME Love Day: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2039 Sadly, the project doesn't seem to have a website, although I hear there is an IRC channel. -- Dafydd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
