Dell posted an apology on their Google+ page yesterday:
https://plus.google.com/117161668189080869053/posts/5Zg5FdFEydi
During a Dell-hosted customer and partner summit in Copenhagen in April,
well-known public speaker and moderator, Mads Christensen, made a number of
inappropriate and
Hi Elaine! Thanks for posting those updates. yeah, Google+ strange that
they didn't post something on their website or release a statement in a
more broader known format.
Glad to see you out of your lurking!
-Sarah
On 5/15/12 6:50 PM, Elaine Mao wrote:
Dell posted an apology on their
Welcome Elaine, and thanks for keeping this moving! The comments on
that G+ are very informative.
I'd love to see some reliable sources to back up that
a) it was an attempt at humour
On Sunday, 13 May 2012 at 03:20, Sarah Stierch wrote:
Dell held their annual summit this week in Europe. They hired a moderator for
the opening day named Mads Christensen who is a media personality that is
described as very conservative and this also is regarding his views towards
women.
I think it is relevant to our understanding of how the gender gap developed
on WMF wikis.
While I don't believe most early WMF users were misogynists, I think a
significant portion of them came from work environments where lack of women
was accepted as normal. So, noticing and addressing the
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.comwrote:
I think it is relevant to our understanding of how the gender gap
developed on WMF wikis.
That was hard to pick up from the e-mail. :( I too was baffled as to how
this connected. I still don't see how this connects
On 5/13/12 4:40 AM, Laura Hale wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com
mailto:sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote:
I think it is relevant to our understanding of how the gender gap
developed on WMF wikis.
That was hard to pick up from the e-mail. :( I
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.comwrote:
I think it is relevant to our understanding of how the gender gap
developed on WMF wikis.
That was hard to pick up from the e-mail. :( I too
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote:
Dell held their annual summit this week in Europe. They hired a moderator
for the opening day named Mads Christensen who is a media personality that
is described as very conservative and this also is regarding his
I would think it could certainly be added to the Mads Christensen article
on Wikipedia, found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Barner-Christensen.
Cindy
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:23 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Sarah Stierch
On 13 May 2012 23:36, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson cindam...@gmail.com wrote:
I would think it could certainly be added to the Mads Christensen article on
Wikipedia, found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Barner-Christensen.
Have we any sources other than the blog post?
--
Tom Morris
On 5/13/12 6:39 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
On 13 May 2012 23:36, Cynthia Ashley-Nelsoncindam...@gmail.com wrote:
I would think it could certainly be added to the Mads Christensen article on
Wikipedia, found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Barner-Christensen.
Have we any sources other than
On May 13, 2012 5:40 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Have we any sources other than the blog post?
Yes -- the cnet column, among others. But isn't this the sort of discussion
that belongs on article talk pages, and maybe a wikiproject talk page?
Don't get me wrong -- I'm glad this was
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
cindam...@gmail.com wrote:
I would think it could certainly be added to the Mads Christensen article on
Wikipedia, found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Barner-Christensen.
Dell regional manager apologised, and said it was intended to
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 13, 2012 5:40 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Have we any sources other than the blog post?
Yes -- the cnet column, among others. But isn't this the sort of discussion
that belongs on article talk
On 5/13/12 8:33 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Pete Forsythpetefors...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 13, 2012 5:40 PM, Tom Morrist...@tommorris.org wrote:
Have we any sources other than the blog post?
Yes -- the cnet column, among others. But isn't this the sort of
Not sure what this has to do with Wikis, but its pretty sad all the
same. It was a month ago, and not nearly enough has been made about
it.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57431869-256/why-we-need-to-keep-talking-about-women-in-tech/
it is getting fresh coverage on reddit too. Not sure why
Maybe we can boycott Dell until they issue an apology, if they havent already.
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 1:01 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure what this has to do with Wikis, but its pretty sad all the
same. It was a month ago, and not nearly enough has been made about
it.
Maybe some one can write a Wikinews story about it...
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 1:01 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure what this has to do with Wikis, but its pretty sad all the
same. It was a month ago, and not nearly enough has been made about
it.
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