+1 It's way more positive and encouraging.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Satabdi Das <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > > > _______________________________________________ > > WFS-India mailing list > [email protected] > > Message archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at > http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your > account settings. > > -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org > >
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