Forwarding Svaksha's mail since she is not in our group (yet). Satabdi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: स्वक्ष <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:18 AM Subject: Re: [IndiChix] Poster Competition To: LinuxChix - India <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:23 AM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote: > WFS India in collaboration with Glug-Cal, Fedora and Mozilla announces > a poster competition on women's, LGBT and gender-related issues in > India using free software tools as part of the extended Cultural > Freedom Day celebrations. > > > http://www.wfs-india.org/p/poster-competition-womens-and-lgbt-issues Hey, Where can I submit a patch for the "Background" section? I found the language quite brusque which wont help if we want to bridge the gap. Since it is about women, I am taking the liberty of providing a bug-fix below :) First a short note on why I'm rooting for a change: Like most Indian woman I too have experienced all the issues first-hand, written (erm..ranted on my blog and in IRL discussions) a lot on sexism and other issues we women face BUT all that has been limited to my blog or IRL discussions. When we are creating a poster to get more women and students involved in FOSS, it is easier to use language that is more professional and inviting. People respond better to politeness (I know, I do) than sarcasm and rudeness. We can speak the truth about women and LGBT in a friendlier, polite manner - the impact will be greater. That said, here is the patch (its not perfect, so feel free to bug-fix it): Background India being a multi-ethnic, multi-racial country, while coping with challenges of corruption and a billion (and growing) population is slowly coping with the silent half - women and the LGBT populace. India has a 5000-year history that straddles the the modern - the spectrum of a cell-phone totting farmer, a tweeting teenager, a technophile home-maker, an artistic designer, and half a billion more who are embracing technology in Planck time. And yet, this majority are still finding their voices in their struggle to retain their space while retaining basic human values within our society. Your challenge is to bring out your virtual brushes and paint away your thoughts that will pictorally depict this struggle while celebrating their diversity. Can you retain the essence of India's 5000-year history that straddles the modern world? Exercise your creative freedom with Free/Libre open source software and other technologies. Your poster may just be the inspiration that gives them a voice to fight for their rights, a vision of a better tomorrow, a tomorrow that has the freedom and space for their dreams while allowing them to remain rooted in the Indian ethos. </end-patch-for-Background-section-Poster-Competition-on-Women's-and-LGBT-Issues> If you have hosted the poster text on github (or any other dvcs), please point me to it so that I can make a pull request for the above. I just spent over an hour being creative in my editing (instead of the Julia workshop announcement) and its 3 am, so please be kind in your criticism. I have also tried to retain some text that talks about the social problems in a discreet manner - it alludes to problems that need solutions but does not explicitly describe it. In a country that struggles to keep the "girl child" in schools, its easy to scare them off with words like "sex education" - At some schools, parents would be up in arms over it. I also wish the rule #2 would be relaxed a bit. When I started volunteering in 2005 as a list-admin for two mailing lists at linuxchix.org, I was still using Windows on a partitioned drive. It took me a few months to ditch the dual-boot and switch over completely to Ubuntu Linux. ...and I still have never used more than half the tools listed there. So yeah, I plead ignorance to the xcf and eps formats too. Hope you can consider some of my suggestions ! Thank you ! -- svaksha ॥ http://svaksha.com ॥ _______________________________________________ IndiChix mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/indichix -- Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it <http://bangalore.aidindia.org/>. Find me on the internet <http://about.me/satabdi>
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