Someone once said they'd be happy just to find one male geek who sees a prominent female technologist as their hero/role model The converse is often true.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Penny Leach <pe...@mjollnir.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:29:52PM -0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: >> As Meike said, it's the only way to use pledgebank. And it sucks, but >> I don't know if there's an equivalente system that does the same thing >> without forcing such stupid text on you. > > Yeah I didn't realise that at time of writing. > > >> In any case, the 1000 number was reached within a week or so of the >> pledge becoming available, so there's no need to worry that 1000 >> people won't do the same. > > I saw that too - but I saw the pledge reposted on blogs and mailing lists > with that quote and without the pledgebank context... it just seemed a bit > negative. > > Anyway it's awesome that people are doing this anyway. I just think the > psychological effects of language like in this case are interesting. > > Cheers, > P > > > -- > /* --------------------------------------------------- > Penny Leach | http://mjollnir.org | http://she.geek.nz > GPG: 8347 00FC B5BF 6CC0 0FC9 AB90 1875 120A A30E C22B > --------------------------------------------------- */ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmTGw0ACgkQGHUSCqMOwiuLiwCgpst4a+LHVEa7cpY5g6A3nYz1 > woUAoLiyWXik0iHE61HGHi4x6yUKzqtr > =7mmq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- No Guilt apon accusation! http://creativefreedom.org.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
