On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:44 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:49 +0100, Anne �stergaard wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:28 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:21 +0100, Anne �stergaard wrote: > > > > In my opinion the first smart Free Software community that understands > > > > that freedom should be for more than 50% of the worlds population > > > > (theoretically speaking) and that it should respect all its users and > > > > would be users plus welcome and include newcommers will be the community > > > > that everyone wants to belong to. > > > > > > Nobody here decided that freedom is only for men, so there's no need to > > > persuade us that we are wrong to have decided that. If you have any > > > practical suggestions to make involvement easier for anyone then let's > > > hear them. > > > > Nobody decided this. It just seems so to me according to the statistics > > and my own experience. I am referring to Free Software and freedom to > > have a say in IT matters and to be heard. > > And it did not occur to the GNOME society (or anyone else) earlier to do > > anything about this fact which could have deep consequences for our > > national and global society. > > It is easy to criticize, and it have occurred to the GNOME society > before that a higher percentage of women involved would be good thing. > The problem is that nobody seems to be able to come up with any concrete > ideas for trying to make the situation better. As Murray (and others) > have said, if you have concrete suggestions for how we can improve > things we are all ears.
For the past three years I have been inviting some competent female speakers to present on user day. Even this year I expext to see 3- 4 on the podium on my initiative. > If you want to try and set up a 'Women in GNOME' task force to look into > the issue and try to come up with some proposals, I as a board member > would be more than willing to support such a thing. I think I should host a BoF on Saturday or Sunday during GUADEC 6 in May if possible. Thank you for your kind support:) Anne -- Anne �stergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
