Aloha, On Friday 18 June 2010 13:18:23 Katarina Machalkova wrote (shortened):
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."
This is only her way to express her feelings and nobody ever said it in that term!
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.
And this is a lame excuse for not supporting the girls that tried this already! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org