Hi all, Lesley Binks wrote @ 08/07/09 15:52:
> In a list and irc manner I have rarely felt unwelcome within the > Linux community and not yet within the Debian part of it. > However in the light of the Ruby crap I feel it is even more important > to keep the women sub-project going. Nobody want's to do anything to the d-w project as a whole. D-W will go on not matter what. The question is simply and only if we want to move the contents that were put in the Debian-Women wiki when it was still in use into the general Debian wiki instead of having it rot away somewhere in an unlinked and unused wiki installation. > I think I am happier if we have our own 'quarter' where we can make it > absolutely clear > certain topics stuff are not welcome, nor tolerated and at least have > the expectation that we won't need to waste our time > explaining alternative viewpoints to saddos like the CouchDB and Rails > authors. ( I'm sorry I've only just picked up on the news about > that event and I am trying to be as polite as I can be about it. I'm > just really angry right now.) I fully agree that the internet contains a whole lot of people that range from annoying to plain offensive. However: 1) This is Debian, not CouchDB and not Ruby 2) I don't think creating a parallel infrastructure/community is the solution to the problem. We should show face and not hide away in some kind of virtual gated community. > I am happy to be a part of the Debian project - however small my part might > be. > I am also more than happy to help keep up the women's subproject wiki > and web-pages going. We can of course re-activate the D-W wiki, re-link it in our pages, clean it up, upgrade the software etc. etc. However the reason it fell into oblivion in the first place is that D-W currently doesn't really produce much content, leave alone content that is so plenty and so dynamic that it needs a whole wiki to keep track of it. So, I currently don't see we should take the trouble. Best, Meike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
