Re: Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post

2008-12-22 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote: So are you saying that the conduct of a few folks on -devel or -project is sufficient for you to leave? Or an 'insufficient' response by the DPL? or by other list members? I suspect that you are leaning towards 'yes'

Re: Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post

2008-12-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Peter Tuhársky dijo [Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 03:01:04PM +0100]: As of the overwhelming reaction to the mail, I can partially understand the reaction, when I look at Amayita website. Ok... This is just one more evidence of the trollness of this thread. Do you have an issue with Amaya? Many people

Re: Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post

2008-12-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:59:51PM -0700, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: The article linked to the mail message, which baffled me. More than anything, isn't the message simply off topic? I don't know, maybe I live in a fantasy land, but given the response on other technical lists to off topic

SCALE Women in Open Source Conference Deadline Fast Approaching!

2008-12-22 Thread Gareth J. Greenaway
Happy Holidays everyone! The 7th Annual Southern California Linux Expo is shaping up to be a great show, the best one so far! Until December 31st, 2008, we are accepting proposals for the Women in Open Source mini conference, which will be taking place on Friday the 20th of February prior to

Re: Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post

2008-12-22 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2008-12-22, Peter Tuhársky penned: Saying that, I'm glad there are women in Debian community, although I don't fully understand their effort to maintain a special Debian Women community. There is no Debian Men community I know of, and probably noone find enough time or reasons worthy of

Re: Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post

2008-12-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:47:45PM -0700, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2008-12-22, Peter Tuhársky penned: Saying that, I'm glad there are women in Debian community, although I don't fully understand their effort to maintain a special Debian Women community. There is no Debian Men community

Re: Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post

2008-12-22 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Monique Y. Mudama (s...@bounceswoosh.org): Mostly, I feel sorry for the guy who posted this joke, because I don't think it was meant to be offensive -- it seems more likely to me that the developer is perhaps a little socially inept and misguaged his audience. Of course, something