On 06/18/2010 07:53 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le vendredi 18 juin 2010, à 16:06 +0200, Administrator a écrit :
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."
If you want a good reason - it's because nobody else in the open source community is doing so.
Which is actually wrong: http://women.debian.org/home/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Women http://ubuntu-women.org/ http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen (and probably many more)
Saying "pff, we don't need that" is just the usual reaction. We can make our project attractive for women, and we should :-)
Hey all , Yes even I very much support this reason and if things fall in right place , we can make our events more livelier :-) apart from other major jobs (Goal oriented). So how do we achieve this ? What interests do we look for ? Will it be only to 'develop' (I dont think so , openSUSE never focused only on developers) .We'll be needing them for every possible job. SO (according to me). . .. 1) Women - Itself is a broad chapter : We need to first get someone who can tell us - what a gal would actually look in an OS .I have seen few gals using Mac with some Pink theme and make it more girly . Also having advice from them in certain sectors, ask them to handle jobs where Women can make a big impact (I am not getting anything like that now , but there 'IS' for sure) would be a good thing overall. Just my 2 cents ;-) . -- Regards SJ (Shayon) openSUSE Member http://en.opensuse.org/User:wwarlock http://shayonj.wordpress.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org