On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:01:54PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:48:57PM +0930, Kim Hawtin wrote: > > it takes a long time for minorities to gain respect in the wider community, > > It should *never* happen. Respect is something that individuals > get. When applied to groups, the word is "stereotyping". Fortunately > Debian is more or less immune to this; it'll never happen.
Well, take it from the other side. If a minority group is actually not respected to the point of it hindering the ability of individuals to earn respect then there is a problem. As you say though, the Debian developer community does seem to be largely immune to this (krooger aside) but I think it would be nice to see this extended to our userbase. The best way to do this is more exposure of minorities in respectable positions, which is what I see this project being aimed at. - David Nusinow
