On Friday 23 July 2004 12:33 pm, nicole wrote: > > At 12:25 on Jul 23, Carla Schroder shook the earth with: > > > On Friday 23 July 2004 11:39 am, Amaya wrote: > > > Jutta Wrage wrote: > > > > Why basically men? What is the intention of the supporters page? > > > > > > As seen at: http://women.kde.org/aboutus/supporters.php > > > > > > Hmmm... honestly, that makes me feel a bit queasy. I'm sure they're great > > guys, but I don't see the point. It's not like there's a shortage of > > platforms for men to get recognition in tech. And I don't quite see how it > > fits the goals of Debian-Women... ?? > <snip good comments> > > Third, I think we could just put a segment in the FAQ about how men can be > involved, too. Something like "I am a guy, but interested in supporting > debian-women. How do I get involved?" This sort of plays into Erinn's > existing FAQ question about this being women-only. > > Bottom line: we're not women-exclusive, we encourage the participation of > men, but women are what this is all about. >
Ok, good, I think you summed it up very well. But shouldn't all contributors to Debian-Women receive recognition? I'm just not comfortable with the idea of a separate "these guys think D-W is cool" page, it doesn't make sense to me. Like the KDE page- yeah, some guys think KDE-women is cool. So what? Maybe I'm just a cranky old bat, but I don't think we need an endorsement page from men. So maybe what we're looking at is a "Profiles" section which is exclusively for highlighting women Debian contributors, and a separate "These fine folks do the work here at D-W", because hard-working volunteers should get recognition. Ideally, since D-W is meant to be a stepping-stone for women to the greater Debian universe, we will attract enough women to handle all the work of running D-W, and not need men filling in for things we can't do. I think we need to stay very focused on the purpose of D-W, and not go meandering all over. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
