>From the uninformed peanut gallery: I don't understand just about any of this thread of messages, if it's supposed to be serious. Am I thick? or is it supposed to be simply humorous?
If humorous, it's pretty elaborate and not bad and all that, but, is this related to Apache any longer? I like the idea that Apache, like all upstanding meritocracies, doesn't think of either gender as a 'special case'. Committers are just committers, not boy committers or girl committers. So I'd love to let the woman@ discussion wrap up, myself, and return @apache.org lists like this to their usual level of non-gender-specific noise. Sean On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Anjana G Bhattacharjee <a.g.bhattachar...@gmail.com> wrote: > ARCHIVAL NOTE ONLY as at 8 weeks since inception of this proposal -- > > Prototyping of a wo...@a.o is commencing care of the email address and > infrastructure of wo...@aporia-works.org by way of an instantiation of > womAn@<any>.<organisation>, of which a wo...@apache.org may - or may not - > become a next in due course. > > For the purposes of prototyping, possibly relevant instances of the > following terms may be flagged for further reflection during the ordinary > course of both online and offline interaction across all communities within > which wo...@aporia-works.org endeavours to participate: > > (a) "openess" to "open community" > (b) "consent" during "consensus process" > (c) "meriting" of "meritocracy" > > In particular, with regards possible issues of gender balancing, > wo...@aporia-works.org will begin by proptotyping a variation of the > Imitation Game introduced during Alan Turing's seminal paper on "Computing > Machinery and Intelligence" [1] > > In due homage, and on occassion of the 60th anniversary of its original > publication in October 1950, wo...@a.o returns to the game of whether or not > a man (A) can imitate a woman (B) enough to fool an interrogator (C) that A > is B, and therefore B must be A. > > Note that this game may or may not be significantly different from the > Turing test of whether or not a machine can be substituted for A, and a man > for B, all other things being equal. > > The email address and infrastructure of wo...@aporia-works.org will > therefore be populated by both one "man" (A) and/or one "woman" (B) for at > least one calendar month commencing 1 Oct 2010, if not for longer. > > This prototyping exercise may or may not turn out to be relevant to the > flagging of possibly relevant instances of the terms (a), (b), and (c) > above. > > For the purposes of cross-reaching between the communities within which > wo...@aporia-works.org is endeavouring to participate, this prototype will > begin by attempting to respond to the poll "Why Women Matter - Diversity > Summit" [2] with a view to cross-referencing this archival note - in situ - > accordingly. > > At any event, here's kindly acknowledging all feedback and comments received > both publicly and privately to date, and looking forward to a next round - > whenever, whatever :-) > > [1] http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html > [2] http://owf-ged-poll.limequery.com/index.php
