On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:17:53AM +0100, Magni Onsoien wrote: > project, and one for women who are DDs or in the NM process. The first > will then serve to show who those DW people are and what they do for the > project, while the other will be kind of more independent of the > project, but will serve for visibility of women in Debian. There will be > overlap, but not all contributors are women and not all women in the > Debian project are or want to be contributors to DW. > > Contributors of all genders are important to the DW project, but I also > think it's very important to show who the females involved more > "formally" in the Debian project are. The men (at least some of them!) > are very easy to spot on mailing lists etc, but not all women in the > project are active there - and certainly none are at the same activity > level as certain men (not that that should be a goal...). And a female > name or two don't stand out very much in a long list of authors in > mailing lists, so it's good to have a place to find the women, too.
I (as a men) second Magnis proposal. I think it is very important to have positive role models to include more women. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~
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