Re: [Gendergap] Google Summer of Code "sets a record" regarding women's participation

2012-05-08 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 5/8/12 6:02 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: (Summer of Wiki!? :D ) And in response to my original post, another conversation is taking place on another mailing list about this and the struggle to entice southern hemisphere friends and folks to participate due to it being winter and in the mi

[Gendergap] Google Summer of Code "sets a record" regarding women's participation

2012-05-08 Thread Sarah Stierch
Google just released their participation data regarding the upcoming Google Summer of Code (or winter of you are on the other side of the world :) ) " The program set another record this year: the highest percentage yet of women accepted. 8.3% of our accepted students identified themselves as

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Béria Lima
No problem at all, several people think I'm a man and grandson of Beria(which I'm not, let's make it clear ;) ) _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Aju

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread George Herbert
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Béria Lima wrote: > George I'm a woman (a young lady if you're from UK)! There are no reason for > you to address me with masculine pronouns ;) I am extremely sorry. That had escaped my notice previously, no offense intended... -- -george william herbert georg

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Gayle Karen Young
from a man, rather than > on > >>>>>>> behavioural merits - or at least that this would influence her > moderator > >>>>>>> actions. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Indeed, her earlier posts on this thread

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Béria Lima
Actually the debate was that we need a new moderator on the team, and I suggested Laura. All the other debates you can ask Emily about. ;) _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Béria Lima
George I'm a woman (a young lady if you're from UK)! There are no reason for you to address me with masculine pronouns ;) _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse so

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Emily Monroe
Nathan, I agree! From, Emily On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Nathan wrote: > A debate over civility and cultural definitions of due respect could go on > forever and become quite contentious... This seems like it would be a good > opportunity for Kevin or another moderator to step in and kill

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Nathan
A debate over civility and cultural definitions of due respect could go on forever and become quite contentious... This seems like it would be a good opportunity for Kevin or another moderator to step in and kill this thread before it gets further out of hand. ~Nathan _

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Béria Lima
Why do you write in capitals letters? _ *Béria Lima **Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. * On 8 May 2012 16:19, Emily Monroe wrote: >

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread George Herbert
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: > Okay. Why DOESN'T Sarah deserve your respect? > > From, > Emily I am not comfortable with Beria's stance either, but I don't know that confronting him on the list over it will help anything. We have personality conflicts on the list. The mo

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Emily Monroe
Okay. Why DOESN'T Sarah deserve your respect? From, Emily On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Béria Lima wrote: > Obviously not from me, or we would not having this talk. > _ > *Béria Lima* > > *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter > livre acesso ao somatório d

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Béria Lima
Obviously not from me, or we would not having this talk. _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. * On 8 May 2012 16:02, Emil

[Gendergap] AdaCamp DC - July 10-11

2012-05-08 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hi everyone, I wanted to send a second reminder about *AdaCamp DC*, which will take place in (you guessed it!) Washington, D.C. on July 10-11. We intentionally wanted it to take place during Wikimania since we have a strong cross-over of attendees. So far we've had a remarkable response from

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Emily Monroe
Sarah has earned respect. Please give it. From, Emily On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Béria Lima wrote: > And who will make me Emily? How old are we that we need to have people > sitting on the corner? > > And authority and respect is not something that is there for miracle, you > need to earn

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Béria Lima
And who will make me Emily? How old are we that we need to have people sitting on the corner? And authority and respect is not something that is there for miracle, you need to earn it. _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somató

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Pete Forsyth
Beria- AdaCamp existed long before WWC, and I'm not sure it's really the same kind of thing -- but I'm sure Val, Sarah, or Sue can speak better to that than I can. Pete On May 8, 2012 8:43 AM, "Béria Lima" wrote: > (WikiWomenCamp - who already got a daugther - The AdaCamp) __

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Emily Monroe
You know what, Beria? At the very least, you will have to respect Sarahs' authority. You're going to have the respect the authority of every moderator, male, female, or other, and respect the right of *everyone* to participate on this list. From, Emily On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Béria Lima

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Béria Lima
Well, people like her are the only one i will respect to moderate me. For obvious reasons, I will not accept any moderation coming from Sarah and I don't think that list should be dominated by a men. Btw, if someone do more for women than Laura, who had the very idea of a Woman's Camp (WikiWomenCa

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 5/8/12 9:52 AM, Thomas Morton wrote: On 8 May 2012 14:42, Béria Lima > wrote: I still waiting for see someone else other than him on moderation. Did you already invite Laura? _ /Béria Lima/ I'd suggest that Laura is possibly not a good mo

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Thomas Morton
On 8 May 2012 14:42, Béria Lima wrote: > I still waiting for see someone else other than him on moderation. Did you > already invite Laura? > _ > *Béria Lima* > I'd suggest that Laura is possibly not a good moderator candidate given her extremely strong viewpoint; I'd be concerned she would

Re: [Gendergap] civility/behavioral standards

2012-05-08 Thread Béria Lima
I still waiting for see someone else other than him on moderation. Did you already invite Laura? _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.