Anton Zinoviev wrote:
[...]
> The Project Secretary is the author of the text that was used as a
> basis for the proposal in Choice 1. Of course as a sympathiser of a
> position somewhat opposite to my position it comes natural to him to
> try to oppose my proposal[2]. Nevertheless during the d
in western countries
spend their whole lives getting told that they are not supposed to be
any good at computers, and some of that sticks subconciously, even when
we don't believe it really.
This is my opinion, anyway :)
Helen Faulkner
So, anyone blindly assuming that a female Debian user is
automatically in the "luser" category is a fool.
I wasn't assuming that. I'm technically not that bad myself. That's
not the point. The point is that *on average* I believe a woman is
going to feel less confident about this stuff th
I don't know you are how long you have been with Debian or what your
contributions are, but are you sure that this lack of confidence isn't
due to inexperience?
I've been using debian increasingly for about 4-5 years now, and have used it
almost exclusively for the last couple. I don't think
Ben Burton:
I suspect you've missed the point somewhat. AIUI she does not fear that
people will bully her because she's female.
Jaldhar H. Vyas:
I think instead of guessing at what we think Helen is saying we should
just go by what she actually did say and let her respond to any
misrepresent
in western countries
spend their whole lives getting told that they are not supposed to be
any good at computers, and some of that sticks subconciously, even when
we don't believe it really.
This is my opinion, anyway :)
Helen Faulkner
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So, anyone blindly assuming that a female Debian user is
automatically in the "luser" category is a fool.
I wasn't assuming that. I'm technically not that bad myself. That's
not the point. The point is that *on average* I believe a woman is
going to feel less confident about this stuff than a
I don't know you are how long you have been with Debian or what your
contributions are, but are you sure that this lack of confidence isn't
due to inexperience?
I've been using debian increasingly for about 4-5 years now, and have used it
almost exclusively for the last couple. I don't think I'm
Ben Burton:
I suspect you've missed the point somewhat. AIUI she does not fear that
people will bully her because she's female.
Jaldhar H. Vyas:
I think instead of guessing at what we think Helen is saying we should
just go by what she actually did say and let her respond to any
misrepresentati
Debian Project Secretary wrote:
> I would like to have a chair for the panelists, and hand off
> the actual selection of other panelists (who may or may not be debian
> developers) and running the debate to the chair (to minimize any hint
> of collusion with current office holders, inclu
Don Armstrong wrote:
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005, Helen Faulkner wrote:
Debian Project Secretary wrote:
I hereby invite volunteers for the debate chair and panelists;
these volunteers shall be responsible for setting the rules for
the debate and selecting the questions for the candidates.
I am happy to
Hi All,
As you probably know, the 2005 Debian Project Leader elections will
involve an IRC debate, to be chaired by Martin Krafft and myself.
The exact format and time of the debate have not been finalised, though
the debate will obviously be held during the campaign period (ie before
March 21st) a
Helen Faulkner's series of essays about going through NM --
unfortunately I can't find the first one; the rest are at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2004/08/msg00126.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2004/10/msg00017.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2004/12/msg00056.html
ht
Sorry, this is definitely OT for -vote. But I wanted to clarify the
follwing comment, which has been made repeatedly on this thread, incase
anyone is actually wondering about it.
MJ Ray wrote:
I think it's a problem that most of the points under how to
avoid being sexist haven't actually been done
martin f krafft wrote:
Hello, world.
This year's DPL debate will take place on Saturday, 19 March 2005,
at 23:00 UTC[0]. It will last for two hours. The meeting will take
place over IRC, using two channels:
Actually, we are sorry to say that this announced time for the DPL IRC
debate turned out to
Hi All,
Having just run the 2005 DPL IRC debate (and a stressful experience it
was too), Martin Krafft and I would like to get feedback on what people
thought of the debate and how it was run.
Suggestions for future debates will be very welcome, not that I am
planning to volunteer to do that again
Anthony Towns wrote:
The perspective I take instead is one of making it easier for people who
have a use for developer status to get it. If translators, artists, and
lawyers don't have any use for accounts, uploading priveleges and
whatever else, then that's fine, IMO -- I don't think all the po
Hi Everyone,
There is an error in the currently posted transcript for part 1 of the
debate [1]. The following section, in "Managing DPL Duties and Life":
AngusLees:
I consider travelling as an extremely important factor of being
DPL. Before nominating, I carefully considered the time I wil
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