Are you saying that there should be a section on jQuery set aside for womens issues?
I would find the idea of encouraging any statistical minority to use something as offensive. Not because I'm sexist/racist/ageist/etc, but that, if someone feels the need to learn about it, they would, and shouldn't be scared away by remarks of a few scallies, or because they don't know enough about it. My point being, I wouldn't encourage anyone to do anything if they didn't already have an interest in it. And if they already had an interest, then they'll look into it when they're good and ready. There's plenty of information available to would-be coders to start, and while we should focus more and more at opening up the community (forum, guys already??!!!!), there's already a good starting point. Internationalisation is another thing entirely however. There's clearly the desire for jQuery to be translated, but maybe not those with the time, experience and general knowhow. Back to my original point... Whilst I agree that corrections should be taken seriously, and they do highlight oversights in the eyes of the reader, they do happen. I read The Times every morning on the way to work, and I see at least one spelling mistake and several grammar mistakes, despite the advent of spellcheckers. If everyone who saw something offensive stayed away, youtube would a failure, newsgroups would never have exploded, and slashdot would be empty (apart from Wil Wheaton submitting odd articles about his time on Star Trek!). Fil wrote: > > The problem is not those who "complain", it's the image you project > around. > > When you read something about a new and exciting javascript library, and > you > find something that upsets you (be it a girl on page 12 with no > explanation > of why it should be funny [as opposed to sexist], or non-compliant XHTML > in > the examples, or people using harsh words on the mailing-lists), you tend > to > stay away. > > Because you start suspecting that it's not as perfect at advertised, or > because it gives you the impression that this is going to be yet-another > big-boys women-unfriendly community. > > Some people in Debian has worked a lot on these issues, under the "Debian > women" title (though it's not restricted to women's issues: a friendly > community is friendly to all, if just only to timids). > > w/o further developing, I invite you to read > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ > > -- Fil > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Magazine-Typo-corrections-tf2336238.html#a6509066 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
