Just wanted to say that what you wrote below is what I wanted to write in my first mail but I couldn't find the right words/phrases.
(Sometimes it is surprisingly hard to express myself in english...) /tsr El mar, 04-05-2010 a las 23:49 -0700, Noy escribió: > TSR > > Thanks for your considered response.... I'll just focus in on this > comment; > > > >> I know this maybe a controversial subject but I think if we do this > >> right it will be a major benefit for our program. > > > > One thing to have in mind is to ask women to actually govern this > > particular scholarship. Sometimes I have felt cheezy when men try to > > 'help' women without actually asking them if and how they want help. > > > This actually gets to the root of the problem; Wesnoth as a > organization does not currently have, (nor in its seven year history) > ever counted a woman coding developer among its ranks. Thus we don't > have a person who can do what we're asking. Its not just an issue > facing us, but I think the open source community as a whole. In the > future if wesnoth had a woman administrator to manage this, that would > be a real achievement in my mind. > > On the practical side for the short term you're absolutely right this > is a concern. My response is that when I do approach some of the > organizations for women in open source to advertise, I'll try to > involve them to obtain feedback on our proposal. That will not just > benefit how we actually implement the scholarship (to get the best > technical results), but I think it might make it more amenable for > suitable candidates to join. > > Again, I appreciate the effort you took to point this out... > > > Noy > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
