On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Holger Levsen<hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 20. August 2009, Margarita Manterola wrote: >> I'm thinking of organizing a local (i.e. in Argentina) Free Software >> event, where all the speakers are women, and somehow try to advertise >> this event so that it's clear that it's specially oriented towards >> women, but obviously men will also be welcome at the event. > > Why? It's not obvious to me. I think not having any men there would attract > some women who would otherwise not joiin. My original idea was to have a technical event with useful talks. It'd be a shame to go through the effort of gathering quite a number of regional women for an event, and then make it so that only a group of people (women) can attend. If it were to be only a "what is free software" event, I agree that it could be women-only. But I'm not sure it's healthy either. One thing is to try to show women that they can participate in free software, a different thing is to show a fictitious world where all attendees are women. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
