Hi, Simon Pickering said: > > On Jul 31, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Andrea Grandi wrote: > > > p.s: (just a "crazy" idea) what would you think about reserving a spot > > > in Maemo Council for women? Yes, I know that womens in this kind of > > > stuff are rare just like non-corrupted politicians (well... at least > > > here in Italy, don't want to offend any other nation :) ) but the ones > > > who work in IT are very valid and skilled, so why don't we try to > > > promote them and involve more in the Maemo community? > > > > I love this idea - though I am skeptical that reserving a > > position on the council for a woman is the right way to go > > about getting more wome to participate. > > Hmm, I don't think we should enforce positive discrimination. I think we > should certainly promote and encourage women to stand for the council, no > argument there, but reserving a place is not right IMO. As ever, the place > should be given to the best candidates, no matter who they are.
I recommend everyone to go look at Kirilly (sp?) Robert's OSCON keynote on blip.tv. What I took away from her talk was not that women want special treatment, they simply don't want *special* treatment. Lower the tone of discussion, take some of that aggression you typically find in online interactions out of play, make your project a nicer place, and more women (and, in general, other people who are intimidated by passive aggressiveness) will come to your project. Cheers, Dave. _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
