On 26 August 2010 08:52, Mackenzie Morgan <maco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, August 26, 2010 02:49:31 am Lesley Binks wrote: >> Well the only thing I heard of recently in u-w was having your picture >> taken to win prizes. I am not against people having their picture taken >> but was in the group that felt that it wasn't something d-w would do. > > OK so I didn't explain well on IRC. There were multiple contests. One was an > essay contest. The one you're talking about was a contest for photos of > little girls using Ubuntu, released under a CC license, so that the usual > repertoire of boysboysboys using computers has something to complement it. > The goal was to have real images that can be used for posters and suchlike > that aren't reinforcing the stereotype of computers = boys. > > -- Thanks for making that clearer Mackenzie - my immediate reaction to "posing for pictures to win prizes" was there's too much riskl of it descending into a 60s/70s bimboesque approach with those without 'the desired perfect body type' beginning to interpreting it as an exercise in exclusion (again).
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