Would You guys just drop this f**king thread. If you guys really think this discussion is doing anything useful then you should check the time spent on reading this s**t. Get some life ppl. 1. If you reall want a woman in here f**king stop treating them like woman and treat them like other human beings. 2. If Women really think this is helping please look back, it only makes us think you want special treatment, which you can get this way. once you stop treating yourself as special please look at things at the linux users angle and stop this WASTEAGE OF TIME. There are loads of better things to do then discussing this.
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:47, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > >> > Suggestions about what to do next: > > >> No, I think it's imperative that people stop associating the idea of >> encouraging women to participate with yet-another-talk about "how to >> encourage women to participate". >> >> I think we should try instead to figure out whom we can invite to talk >> about something that doesn't just become a freak sideshow attraction. > >> What are women using Linux for? What interests them? If we talk about >> those things, then they might be encouraged to participate. > > Indeed, if I felt that I would be treated as just another human being > with an interest in FLOSS, I would feel encouraged- I (or any other > woman) would dislike being looked at as the 'freak' who decided to be > there... > >> >> > c) Changing, or rather adding to the guidelines of the LUG posting >> > methods/rules. >> >> Heh. I just noticed that the guidelines say: >> >> "Be polite [...] No one minds a little sense of humour though." > > Also, how about adding a link to the HOW TO ENCOURAGE WOMEN IN LINUX > which I sent in my earlier posting? At least that might indicate to > members that the list has at least thought about making things > woman-friendly. > > I find it very interesting and telling that when the thread was being > general, there were many posts to and fro- defensive and offensive. But > after I have requested people to go through the HOW TO- nobody, nobody > has responded to that (is it useful? Can they think of applying any of > those to the delhi LUG?.) > Does it say something about the seriousness of those who said that they > want feedback from a woman? That HOW TO is written by a whole lot of > women. > > Hassath > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Manpreet Singh Nehra System Administrator Manager eSolutions R&D Lab India Pvt. Ltd. "Where Excellence Begins" ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using SquirrelMail. "Webmail for nuts!" http://squirrelmail.org/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
