+1 On 5/29/07, Rajesh Pandey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 > > On 5/29/07, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On May 29, 3:10 pm, "Srishtee Gurung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, there are very less female participants in FOSS nepal. And we have > > to > > > make the environment very much appropriate for female participants. And > > I > > > can see that loads of male fossians(Nepali) attitudes that needs to be > > > changed. There are lot of great guys working very hard to establish > > FOSS > > > > well, no offence intended, but what exactly does "loads of male > > fossian attitudes that needs to be changed" mean? > > > > i think, we are already on the wrong track. Its not only in FOSS and > > computer science, take any engineering subject, female participation > > has been always low. And blaming *solely* the male attitudes for this > > is the least likely method of improving it. > > > > No pun intended, but for guys, its always pain to be spending life in > > a chick-less field. Given increased female participation and > > enthusiasm, males would only be happy to welcome them gracefully. > > After all, we still have the much cliched examples of the first ever > > programmer (Lady Augusta Lovelace) and the developer of first ever > > compiler for a computer programming language (Grace Murray Hopper) > > being females, disproving any argument that female participation was > > discouraged from the beginning. But in recent years, Computer Science > > has the least number of females as compared to any other fields of > > engineering. > > > > > movement in Nepal. And because of few "spoiled attitude" we do not want > > > females to be discouraged. > > > > > > > True. Noone wants. But again, what on earth are we to guess by "few > > spoiled attitude" ? It would help if we started talking in clear, > > binary terms. > > > > > Thank you for sending the article, hope it will be an eye opener for > > most of > > > the males and as well for females. > > > > Lack of spirited and proportionate female participation will only > > deprive Computer Science of that "other" perspective, that "other" > > side of seeing and developing things, that female perspective. It > > would only be beneficial to all concerned, if this happens sooner, and > > better if we ourselves could be part of that change. But lets stop the > > blame game. Lets stop acting like bully males and bargaining females. > > At least professionally. > > > > Yes, why not we start talking about it? There are some talks already > > in world's most reputed educational and professional institutes about > > female participation in our field. And there are some efforts and > > special programs launched to encourage women in Computer Science. Lets > > start something similar for our country as well. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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