2009/9/29 Ivan Serra <[email protected]>: > Hi to All > My name is Ivan fro Italy and I'm Ubuntu user and I love this OS > I created a new project on Launchpad and I'm just asking you help about that > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntushe
Hi Ivan, First of all, thanks for acknowledging that there is a problem and trying to do something about it. Although I wish you luck in your project, I seriously doubt that the solution for the low amount of women involved in Free Software will come from developing a distribution targeted at women. In any case, I'm curious about it. Apart of the obvious possible differences, like having a pink theme with lots of teddy bears, ponies, flowers and the such, which is something that some subgroup of women and girls might find attractive, in which way do you plan to customize the distribution that wouldn't fit a random newbie user, male or female? I've had a look at the current list of developers [1], and I see that there doesn't seem top be any women involved. As an important suggestion, I recommend you to constantly ask for feedback to your target audience, so that you actually fulfill their needs and not just some stereotype. The best would be if you were able to attract female developers. In general, Debian tries to be integrative, so you won't find the division you have in Ubuntu (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Easy Peasy,...) and we try to work cooperatively towards a single universal system. Most of the stuff you're proposing for your distro would probably be useful for people outside your target audience, and it would be a pity that they couldn't access it. One thing I'm wondering about, is whether you have developed some research to find out that the kind of distribution you're proposing is what is really needed for solving the exact problems you're targeting at, or if it just comes out of intuition, If it's the latter, I seriously recommend you to double check that your efforts will lead to something productive and that you're not just wasting your time in it. I wish you luck, though. Greetings, Miry [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubushe.m/+members#active -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
