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 :-)
This is the first thing I've seen which identifies a strategy which openSUSE could pursue and which would effectively differentiate oS from the other Linux distros.
I'm glad you also support the idea. I don't think we should do it to differentiate ourselves, though. It's just the right thing to do :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org