On Jan 12, 2008 8:25 PM, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After a few years of Debian-Women we have about 10 female DDs, and > others in the making, and the atmosphere at most developers places is > welcoming towards females. These results are what we have achieved. > We changed Debian (well, at least, I feel we did).
Yes, DW did it and that was my motivation for founding UW all along. > compared to Ubuntu-Women (I have > no idea what Ubuntu-Women has achieved, can you tell us?), but I feel Technically speaking, no "DD-like" situation, but that i feel is a distant dream when there is still confusion[0] about about what UW is about. If I sound disappointed, well i am :( [0] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2008-January/001242.html > that since many UD are DDs, the influence of Debian-Women on the > DDs/UDs has allowed Ubuntu-Women to focus on other areas, since the > developing areas had already been "fixed" by Debian-Women. True, is not something one can specifically point at but DW influence is there. Also the Ubuntu CoC plays a huge role in Ubuntu, which Debian does not have, but each to its own. > As was already stated, we don't oppose to making this effort broader, > and reaching user communities as well, but for doing that, we would > have to have a lot of time and put a lot of effort into it, which we > currently don't have, and it was never one of our priority aims. > > If it's your priority, you have the time and the will to do it, then > you are more than welcome to do it. But I don't think it's fair to > come here demanding that we should do something that we never claimed > we would do. > right, I guess that is true for any situation, not just Debian. -- Vid || http://www.svaksha.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]