Hello Since this is my first message here, I’ll introduce myself first. I am, in no particular order, French, male, student, Python programmer, activist, happy Debian user and Free Software enthousiast.
Debian-women is one of the two Debian mailing-lists I’m subscribed to; other ones have too much traffic. The other one is debian-devel-announce, to keep an eye on the news. I subscribed to debian-women after reading about the project and paging through the archive because I liked the goals of the project and the atmosphere of the conversation. People are friendly, help each other, don’t tell people their question is stupid, and are working to make Debian a better place. They even talk about babies! Truly a different atmosphere than some debian-devel threads. So I’ve been getting mail for four months, following the debates without piping in. I didn’t want to rush in and voice opinions before I had observed the list. It was strange to feel myself in the minority, in the group that had to be cautious, because not dominant. This is at least one thing I’ve learned from d-w. My invisible contribution has been going to the archives to report spam :) Back on topic, I think archives are useful, because they turn discussion into resources, both about technical stuff and women/inequality in Debian/Free Software/computery things. Someone shy can directly mail someone listed on the d-w website, can’t they? Plus, if someone writes to the list confident it will not be made public, and then someone uses the message to do something Bad™, the plan would backfire. Knowing your message will be public when writing avoids that. (This scenario is very hypothetical, but still.) My €0.02. Kind regards, Merwok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
