On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:03:10AM +0200, Angela Fuß wrote: > Dear Angela,
Aloha sister Angel :-) > > So, Ladies, it's time to lead. In traditional culture, it is the > > wise feminine (within both men and women) which gives culture and > > society its direction, whereas the masculine "doer" within both men > > and women, implements the ideals. Thus, the most important role of > > participation for Debian Women, is to constructively guide and > > initiate "in which direction should we be growing?" > > Wow! What an inspiring and distinct mail you wrote! > I think this is great input for the debian community! We each do what we can to contribute to the blessing of and for all :-) > My question is: > Instead of having a Mini DebConf with only female speakers how would it be to > have the upcoming DebConfs be prepared and led only by women? Following the > question you came up with: In which direction should we be growing? I'm going to pass on this question in the practical sense, in that I won't be attending, so I'll skip planning it. I did habitually attend USENIX through the mid 80's, but I'm not much experienced with modern conventions / conferences. I think that one of my points was about the feminine in both men and women, as we saw recent events here in DW list initiated by men who expressed interest in the welfare of DW, so no, I think that a sex or gender based in/ex-clusion is counter to my whole point. It is that people have preconceptions and prejudice about the spirits in the bodies, based on the bodies, which I was trying to guide people to stop focussing upon. i.e. it's not about which body somebody has but that there be some consciousness and discussion about incorporating feminine values in all we do. It is the balance which brings harmony and success both within us as individuals, and between us in relating, whether individually or professionally. > Would that work? How would it be? It would be different for each individual, for we all project our perceptions as an overlay upon the neutral facts. Likewise individual goals and motivations may be personal, as in those who seek acknowledgement or recognition for their efforts, and that may be the case for many women, overcoming a history of devaluation or invalidation from men in their experience / environment. For many women it won't feel safe to "present" in a predominantly yang environment. It is traditional in all gatherings that 85% of attendees are there for what they can *get* *from* others, and only 15% are there to *give* to / for the group. The whole new paradigm of life is to spontaneously in the moment be creative as your own spirit motivates you, and give freely thereof in the open source sense, from which we then all maximally benefit, so really, the question for each individual is, what would *I* like to share at the conference? Independent of sex or gender :-) Perhaps rather than a female bodies conference, what would be useful is to include presenters addressing feminine values amongst the various subjects addressed at conference. As an example, aside from the productivity software we all make use of, one of the categories of occupation of people's attention and energies is "games"... and there is a huge difference between the kind which men enjoy versus women enjoy. I have no interest in anything that involves guns or killing, so I was never a gamer until I saw announcement for the Linux client for the game Second Life(TM). Well, it has devolved, but spun-off of that is OpenSim for interactive 3D worlds, which because they included full group voice chat, were of social interest to me, but again, with feminine values. http://justincc.org/blog/2013/05/20/announcing-the-first-online-opensimulator-community-conference/ I'm interested in a future open source version based on feminine values of Web-ot-Trust / Reputation, rather than hierarchical patriarchal control structures of some centralized and ultimately abusive pseudo-authority / corporate profit center. This being both a social issue and a software issue, would seem to fit right in with Debian Women... how do we remove Obama and the NSA from our on-line lives and instead have a council of wise crones, not in control, but advising. Mentoring is a feminine value. > Greets from Angela Greetings sister :-) May your life be blessed with light and love, graceful easy flow. Aloha, Angela Kahealani -- Kahealani <kaheal...@kahealani.net> http://kahealani.net/ +1(808)822-5272; http://crypto.cat conversation "kahealani" c/o: 6510 Olohena Rd.,T.D.C.; Kapa'a, Kaua'i; [near 96746 U.S., C.F.] -- 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/20130816012521.ga...@kahealani.com
