On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:26:34PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > At some point I don't think that this has nothing to do with Debian > exclusively, but with the way women are socialized and brought up, in > fear and low self esteem in many ways. Unfortunately some women do > need some encouragement before being able to talk assertively in a > public mailing list.
Maybe a middle ground would be to prominently publish the email addresses of a couple of d-w women who say they are happy to be mailed privately for initial contact, but will try to steer those newcomers to the d-w list (or some other women-only list if appropriate)? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org