Hi, One of the things that came up during the DebConf talk on Women in Debian is that a lot of women (and men as well) are affected by impostor syndrome. This is when you feel that you are not good enough to "be here" (wherever here is, Debian, FOSS, your job, etc).
I've personally been affected by this many times, I was affected by it when I started contributing to Debian, when I gave my first talk in my local LUG, when I gave my first talk at DebConf, and even recently when I started my work at Google. I think that it's important to recognize when we are affected by it, to try to fight it as much as possible, but it's also necessary for us to help each other and particularly help new comers in getting over it. One thing that was suggested during the talk is to list the amount of knowledge that someone needs in order to do a certain activity (like packaging, or translating, or fixing bugs, or triaging bugs, etc) and then have pointers to more info about those tasks. I don't know how much difference this could make, but I don't see any damage in trying it and seeing if it helps someone realize their worthiness. What do you think? Would someone be willing to compile this list and post it on the wiki? Any other ideas of what we could do to fight impostor syndrome? -- Besos, Marga -- 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/CAP+fKSpgc3pqpSsTzBZPo=jyv-_yyavxcsselcwank1hta2...@mail.gmail.com
