Penny Leach wrote @ 11/02/09 10:31: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:26:28AM +0100, Anne Ghisla wrote: >> here is a nice initiative: >> http://www.pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay > > Sorry to be the negative voice, but.... > > I've seen this pledge in other places around the internet and it kind of > confuses me: > > "I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in > technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same." > > So what if 1000 other people don't do the same? > > Wouldn't it be better to write, > > "I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in > technology whom I admire, it would be awesome if lots of other people do > the same!" > > It just seems ... more positive somehow.
I think that's a "feature" of pledgebank.com. In fact you can only enter pledges in the form "I will <pledge> but only if <number> <sort of people> will <task>". Best, Meike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
