On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:47:45PM -0700, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2008-12-22, Peter Tuhársky penned: > > Saying that, I'm glad there are women in Debian community, although I > > don't fully understand their effort to maintain a special "Debian Women" > > community. There is no "Debian Men" community I know of, and probably > > noone find enough time or reasons worthy of the efforts to create it. > > However, if the women feel better having such a community, that won't > > hurt me anyhow.
> I think you answer your own (implied) question. Men don't have such a > community because they don't need it -- because they are a strong and > vocal, visible majority in both software development and open source > communities. I don't think there are a whole lot of men who feel > marginalized in the software development and open source communities > just because they are male. FWIW, your reply went only to debian-women, and the only reason he was replying to this thread was because someone cleverly cross-posted to debian-devel where he read it; so he'll not have seen your reply. Not that I think he needs replying to, he's not a developer or a package maintainer, just someone who periodically graces our mailing lists with his opinions and is also a pig. Solidarity! I'm not a woman and I also invariably find his mails off-putting. Anyway, don't let my comments get in the way of using his mail as a catalyst for productive discussion here on this list; though I would ask that you not forward your message to debian-devel, because I'm afraid I don't think that would wind up being very productive at all. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
