Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vincent Untz wrote:

> Le jeudi 17 juin 2010, à 23:15 +0200, jdd a écrit :
> > Le 17/06/2010 23:09, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> >
> > > Can we reword this to: "make everyone feel welcome in our
> > > community, regardless of their gender, culture, or in general,
> > > background"?
> >
> > http://wiki.tldp.org/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO
> >
> > I don't see what we can really do in this respect. It's not an
> > openSUSE specific problem (AFAIK)
>
> We can certainly educate our community, as a first step. Many
> behaviors are really putting off people from different backgrounds
> (not just women).
>
> We can also have some mentorship program specifically targetted at
> some groups. Or (taking the examples of encouraging women) help a few
> women to grow in a role model to attract other women.
>
> It's not specific to openSUSE, but that doesn't mean we can't try to
> improve things in openSUSE :-)

Can we perhaps make it openSUSE-specific please?  

To anyone else with desires to improve the world, may I suggest you join
the army, the opposition, Medecin sans Frontiere, Amnesty, Greenpeace,
or any other society that suits your intentions.



-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (14.4°C)

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