On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:57:03PM -0500, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > I'm sure many of you on the list have already seen this: > > "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post": > http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22320/1090/1/0/ > > And much of the related discussion. I'm surprised there hasn't been > discussion about it on this list. How are others feeling about all of > this? > Debian is a big group, er, community. There are many developers, maintainers, translators, and contributers. A large percentage have very little contact with -devel and just do their bit. But that means they will never be in a position to be *-ist towards folks in such a public forum. Then there are the few who post on -devel or -project that made *-ist comments. So are you saying that the conduct of a few folks on -devel or -project is sufficient for you to leave? Or an 'insufficient' response by the DPL? or by other list members? I suspect that you are leaning towards 'yes' and also Miriam. It would be sad for Debian to loose folks to such circumstances. I dont know how Debian as a community can address such an issue. Would you suggest that they be thrown out? Would there be sufficient support? If there was not, what would that mean for Debian?
I understand that so far Ubuntu has been good in enforcing its 'code' to limit *-ist comments on irc and MLs, which I like. I hope its the same in 10 years. -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
