Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: > > > > Like most places in GNU/Linux land, and IT in general for that > > > matter, the project (newbiedoc) isn't getting "all the help" that it > > > needs because: the help of women is lacking. It's sad to see 1/2 > > > the human race is missing, once again. There are some women working > > > on tech. projects here and there, but as we well know, it's male > > > dominated. > > It could be because a lot of women are brushed off, or feel that they are. > I must confess that sometimes it seems like men have invisible rays with > which they communicate, because women aren't a part of that hive mind, not > even women engineers with 25 years experience. > > Trust me on this one.
I believe you. I think it would be great to have gender-specificity be less obvious, less significant, less germane. Particularly in the linux arena: here, MIND is what matters. Plumbing is irrelevant, despite the hive mentality. <stereotype alert> Probably, it got this way because the geek boys had no confidence in their dealings with people at large, and so developed severe insecurities; then, finding computers that predictably do what you tell them to, fell in love with them, and formed their own acceptable group as a means of having control over a portion of the universe and being better than other cliques, at least at something -- whereas girls-at-large had less hangups to start with, giving them more likelyhood of developing real lives. </stereotype> Not that there aren't some men out there with real lives, of course. :) Is there an aspect of Debian linux that you've conquered, that you wish someone had written a quickie intro on? Configuring exim, mastering mutt, honing emacs, running koffice, playing mp3's? Hmm? http://newbiedoc.sourceForge.net/ is calling you... -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dontUthink.com/
