martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.06.0242 +0100]: > > But debian-women contributors include both men and women. > > Why is it called debian-women? Aren't there also men, some shy, some > merely put off by the roughness of this project, or many other > reasons, who would welcome a warmer environment?
Because its goal is to address specifically the concerns of women who have found Debian forbidding (or something like that). Both men and women can contribute to the understanding of and solutions for these problems. The *topic* is women, the *contributors* are both men and women. > Or: is the problem really sexism? Or is it just that the environment > is not particularly friendly to women, who have different > preferences for social interaction than men? Debian-women's charter does not contain any assumptions I can see about what the source of the problem is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]