In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
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>I didn't think that you had originally meant, "trawl newsgroups and
>credits lists for female names and just stick them up regardless", no :)
That certainly wasn't my intention!
>I wasn't sure about the idea at first, but then I thought of the pages
>like the one where I found a list of satisfied Lynx-users and their
>comments, and how encouraging I'd found it to see that I might be in
>a minority, but it was not that small a minority.
Yup, that's the sort of thing I was thinking of.
>I am thinking that something along the same lines for women who
>work with open source might be similarly encouraging, especially
>if people who come across it can submit their names, too. In fact,
>you might extend it (or add a different one) for women who don't
>work with it, but who just use it. I am becoming more and more
>convinced that there's a lot out there, but they don't advertise
>their existence.
*nodnod*
>Laugh. I was going to protest "I'm not that famous" but I re-ran
>Analog the other day, and for the first time that I know about, I
>had been getting over a thousand hits a day. I suspect that's
>because most people find it through Alan's diary and Alan's diary
>was mentioned on Slashdot at one stage that week.
Well, I found your diary when it was mentioned at our local LUG during a
presentation about "where to find Linux information on the web". The
presenter was basically just going through different websites and saying
what was good about them, and Alan and your diaries came up.
>(The things you learn whilst trying to document something you -thought-
>you knew how to use are incredible, btw.)
Don't remind me ... I'm trying to write a training course called
"internet fundamentals" and I thought I *knew* this stuff, but sometimes
you realise that you don't really know enough about it to write about
it.
>Have I posted my rambles about the diary to the list before? I
>periodically think of doing so, but then hit 'postpone' or 'delete'.
>So I can't remember whether any of them made it past my censorship
>reaction.
I don't think so, but I'd like to see them.
>If I have, sorry. If not, now is a good time to say this: when I
>put the mailto link in, I expected (and got) a lot of feedback from
>non-hackers with hacker partners along the lines of "You too, huh?"
>There was also a bunch from the hackers saying "Eeek, just realised
>how my partner feels". And a noticeable amount of people who said
>that reading my diary and my attempts to get things to work had got
>them interested. My favourite was the one who was using it as ammo:
>"Look! _She_ has the root password on his machines! I want it too!" :)
>
>I hope she got it :)
See, I get a bit of this sort of email too from people who've reading my
geek chicks articles or who just realised somehow that I'm female. It's
usually "hey, cool, another female, nice to see that it's not just me".
I'd like to make that reaction occur more often.
K.
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