Quoting Helen Faulkner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > who didn't get good educational opportunities and non-English speakers > (especially if they speak languages that FOSS software isn't often translated > into) are some examples of groups that a DW-like effort could be pitched > towards. I think that we could have something good to say about something > along > those lines. > > Anyone else have thoughts about this?
Except agreeing? Nothing, actually..:-) What you mentioned above is definitely what makes Debian unique in many ways. We can easily take care of so-called minorities because we don't have to care trading off with getting back any financial investment. The language minorities are a good example, but any minority is indeed a good example. Our only weakness here is that we need people *in the project* who care enough about these minorities, whichever they are, and act for their needs: -we needed a few people in the project who cared enough for the representation of women to take an action. Amaya, Erinn and the few others who started this D-W thing in 2004 popped up and here we are now -we needed a few people who care enough of world domination and have our work translated in as many languages as possible, no matter the language "importance". Here came the debian-i18n project and a few people who try to share this idea of universality. -we need a few people who care about making FOSS and Debian accessible to disabled persons. debian-accessibility came up but is maybe currently a bit stucked because of the lack of volunteers (dunno, indeed) So, we have a lot to say. Do we have a lot to *work on* to motivate a meeting under the umbrella of Debian Friends and the Estremadura initiative, that's another interesting point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
