> Sure, but it becomes an issue when, for example, newcomers are signing > up to the list and seeing no traffic -- our IRC channel is very vibrant
This is one point that rang a bel in my head recently, yes. I had a few occasions to talk about D-W recenlty ([EMAIL PROTECTED] trade show I reported about in debian-events-eu for instance) and my concern was pointing people (mostly women) to this mailing list....which I know is a bit quiet....coucou, Odile...:-) Another "concern" is that I somewhat feel that the IRC channel may be intimidating in some manner. We all know it turned out into a kind of friendly club where many people who are involved in some manner in the project talk about merely anything....and sometimes about D-W...:-) This is something I've done myself a lot (mostly because many people in #d-w are people I personnaly appreciate) until I thinked about it and decided to lower this as much as possible. This is probably a call for refocusing the channel....and in the same time a call for reviving the mailing list. This thread is a first attempt for it. > and women are doing plenty of stuff "quietly", as you say. But a lot of > it doesn't justify having a list discussion or it's too convenient to > keep it on IRC. While I think it's great when new people join the > channel, I think it's unrealistic to recommend they /all/ come on IRC in > order to participate. Especially when they are now that fluent in English...:-) > Yeah, I guess status reports might be ok occasionally. When I was > involved in LinuxChix, horn-tooting was encouraged; basically, telling > people all the cool stuff you did, the benefits being two-fold: more > exposure for accomplishments of women in computing, and actually > encouraging women to not be afraid to speak up about them. The theory > was that many women will not brag about their accomplishments or, at > worst, will not even get recognition for them. Revive the DWWN thingie? But it needs someone to take care of it.....and probably shoul dbe turned into a Debian Women *Monthly* News....after all, no offense intended but we probably don't have that many news..:) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
