On Monday 02 August 2004 3:48 pm, Helen Faulkner wrote: > Carla Schroder wrote: > > [...] > > Language is powerful- it shapes thoughts and perceptions. It really does > > matter, and I think it's within the scope of Debian-Women to take on a task > > like this. It's pretty simple- one of the biggest perceptions we're trying to > > overcome is that Debian is a big ole boy's club, that doesn't want any stinky > > old girls. When documents like the one Helen cited only talk to men, it > > reinforces the boy's club perception. > > Agreed. Language shapes our world. > > Actually, I've just sent a bug report in for this. Now I'm wondering > whether or how much I'm going to get jumped on for complaining about it, > for not filing it for a real package, for anything else in general. I > may live to regret this... > > Anyway, please add whatever comments seem good to you, once the bug > report gets back to the mailing list (I X-Debbugs-CC'd it), and reword > my suggestion for that particular webpage however you like. I started > with Carla's paragraph (hope you don't mind that Carla) and added a > moderately sensible alteration of the rest, but we can quite possibly do > better (mind you the original wasn't exactly amazingly good anyway). >
Hee, I've noticed a lot of Debian docs could use a bit of, er, improvement, so when my current commitments are completed, I'm going to volunteer to assist in document production and editing. Quite a few Debian authors are not native English speakers, and they still do a pretty good job, so I think helping with the final polishing will be a useful contribution. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
