Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le jeudi 17 juin 2010, à 21:03 +0200, Pascal Bleser a écrit :
> On Thursday 17 June 2010 12:57:38 Per Jessen wrote:
> > Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > This includes the following activities in order to excel in our goals:
> > [snip]
> >
> > >     * Emphasize the value of communication and recognize cultural
> > >     diversity within our community
> >
> > I can't help thinking that this is just a blurp (waffle; saying
> > something only for the sake of saying it).  Maybe it belongs in some
> > other context, but it's difficult to imagine what kind of _activities_
> > we would untertake in this respect.
>
> During our strategy meeting, the initial item that cause that line to be 
> there 
> was from me. And what the initial item was about was "making openSUSE 
> friendlier to women" (or rather "female contributors", even though that 
> sounds 
> a bit odd and, don't burn me, I'm not a native English speaker ;)).

I find it weird that "difficulty to contribute as a women" became
"difficulty to contribute because of the culture" ;-)

More seriously, with this specific example, I change my mind: we can
definitely make efforts to make our project more welcoming to women
(btw, we'll have an opensuse-women mailing list soon -- we found a
volunteer to start this at LinuxTag). But I think the sentence that came
as a generalization of this is actually less helpful than the specific
example you have here.

Can we reword this to: "make everyone feel welcome in our community,
regardless of their gender, culture, or in general, background"?

Vincent

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