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 ;)).
Thanks Pascal for bringing this up. Each time I tried to do so among openSUSE contributors and colleagues (all male) in my close proximity, I was only laughed at, the most frequent arguments being: "Making openSUSE friendlier to female contributors is the same as making it friendlier to LGBTs, Chinese Jews or squirels, because those are also in minority", or "It makes no difference to me whether openSUSE users and contributors are male, female, LGBTs, Chinese Jews or squirels, so I don't see why we should try to get specifically more women." So I never ever dared to come out in the open with the idea of opensuse-women ( incl. other activities, such as mentoring program, making female contributors more visible, thus providing role-models, improving code of conduct etc.), because I didn't really want to be laughed at once again. Moreover, it seemed to me pointless to come up with supply (program for female contributors) when there was seemingly no demand. In a sense, few openSUSE guys are happy to be in all-boys club with no women standing in their way, the rest is just not giving a damn about what gender and species the contributors are and the number of involved women (visibly involved, I mean, in planetsuse, factory, forums etc.) is 1-digit number, so there's hardly anyone that would complain about the current status. Maybe I was just selfish and I didn't want to feel so lonely in openSUSE anymore. Maybe it was just me and nobody else seeing the advantages of more diversified community (more creative ideas resulting from combinining different points of view, male and female, for example). But I essentialy reconciled myself with the fact that I'm not strong enough to find some support for the idea, so I basically stopped talking about it. fB. -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o OOo developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter