Am Freitag 18 Juni 2010 schrieb Vincent Untz:
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
Yeah, good examples on how not to do it I suppose? E.g. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-women-list/ shows why extra mailing lists for women is not adding anything good. Honestly: to me these "sub projects for women" look like a way for men to keep the women out of the real thing. The only thing I think we should pick - and that's not only useful for women, but for all new comers - is a list of volunteers mentoring. E.g. making it clear, that there are nice people out there willing to help if your first contact in bugzilla/irc was a failure, but you're still not willing to give up. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org