On Tuesday 06 November 2012 08:55:39 'lesleyb' wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 08:12:23PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 04:35:44PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I have just recommended the mentoring scheme here to two people. One a > > > woman, the other, I think, a man. (It is hard to be sure on the > > > internet.) > > > > > > Sadly, the woman says that she had a look at the list, but doesn't like > > > any differentiation shown, so doesn't like the name of the list. She > > > complains of having been discriminated against, but is discriminating > > > herself. > > > > > > So although she wants to be a maintainer, and finds studying how to be > > > one from manuals difficult, she is not going to ask for a mentor. > > > > > > So often, women are their own worst enemies. :-( > > > > Sounds like somebody who doesn't understand what debian-women is? > > > > A lot of people jump into quick conclusions like debian-women is: > > - a debian subdistro only for women > > - a only women allowed group > > - a special entry point (and the only one) to allow women contribute in > > debian - etc > > > > Sounds like the woman you talk about thought it was the 3rd point :? > > Hi Ana, > > If this is the person I've recently assigned then it's not her fault - I'll > confess I wasn't paying attention to the mentoring scheme too much over the > last few months and she has been waiting a while.
No - she was a fortunate spin-off, who saw my post and contacted me for more info. She said that it had been a while. I passed on what you had given me, Lesley and the rest you know. No, I don't think that you will hear from the original recipient of my post. I hope that I am wrong, of course, but I get the feeling that she has convinced herself against the D-W mentoring scheme. > It's worth bearing in mind the first syllable of Debian refers to a woman > so a woman was involved in the beginning - whether she contributed as her > husband's life support system or more actively involved - I have no idea - > but Deborah was involved. I hadn't thought of that as an argument. Shame on me! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201211061450.55408.lisi.re...@gmail.com
