Re: Debian gathering in mid-May? (Was: Re: Introduction)

2005-05-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:49:45PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote: > > OK, please, folks...I need details! I actually *do* live in LA and want > > to attend this gathering. > > Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is the person to talk to, who is > orga

Re: Backported Cycle to wx2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Miriam Ruiz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, :) > > As there seems to be some licensing problems as well > as stability problems with wx2.5, I've decided to > backport latest version of Cycle to wx2.4 I also had to do so with my poedit package which was compiled with wx2.5 in unstable. Ron ev

Re: Debian gathering in mid-May? (Was: Re: Introduction)

2005-05-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote: > On 4/23/05, Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cere Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [23 Apr 2005 12:04 -0700]: > > > There is supposed to be some sort of Los Angeles Debian > > > gathering (foodconf as it has apparently come to be called) in > >

gender portrayal (was: Women wanted as games programmers)

2005-05-11 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 12/05/2005, at 3:24 AM, Erinn Clark wrote: The weird about a lot of these female protagonists is that they're basically men in women's bodies. Usually bodies which, uh, overaccentuate certain physical attributes. I read something about this once; maybe I'll try to find the article later... On

Re: Debian gathering in mid-May? (Was: Re: Introduction)

2005-05-11 Thread C.M. Connelly
"MKH" == Michelle Klein-Hass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "CD" == Cere Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CD> There is supposed to be some sort of Los Angeles Debian CD> gathering (foodconf as it has apparently come to be CD> called) in mid May. Figured it would be good as many CD> west coast Nort

Backported Cycle to wx2.4

2005-05-11 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, :) As there seems to be some licensing problems as well as stability problems with wx2.5, I've decided to backport latest version of Cycle to wx2.4 The packages are right now at http://156.35.156.136/inniyah/cycle/ and can be run in sarge. I visually preferred wx2.5 version but I guess it's O

Re: Women wanted as games programmers

2005-05-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 07:47:33PM +0200, Javier Candeira wrote: > One of the best games of the last year was Beyond Good and Evil, whose > heroine is a green-haired teenager anybody, men or women, would identify with. Ah yes, that was rather good. There's probably some more I've forgotten, too. L

Re: Women wanted as games programmers

2005-05-11 Thread Erinn Clark
* Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:05:11 12:44 +0100]: > Most of the best ones in recent history have either had strong female > protagonists or principals (Phantom Brave, Disgaea, Xenosaga, Final > Fantasy X-2) or simply been ambivalent about the gender of the > characters (typically bec

Re: Women wanted as games programmers

2005-05-11 Thread Javier Candeira
One of the best games of the last year was Beyond Good and Evil, whose heroine is a green-haired teenager anybody, men or women, would identify with. Highly recommended, good for 12 yro and up, and it is now being sold for 10 euros in re-edition! -- javier Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, May 1

Re: Women wanted as games programmers

2005-05-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:46:35PM +1000, Pia Waugh wrote: > Just a quick comment on this, I don't think that the cars and guns > thing is what puts girls off some games, it is the ridiculous pigeon-holing > of women in those games that leaves the bad taste. I loved playing quake, > doom, wolfenste

Re: Women wanted as games programmers

2005-05-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:18:47PM +1000, Helen Faulkner wrote: > This may be of interest, especially if any of you are in the UK and > considering doing a degree in computer science. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4530583.stm > > I think it's a positive step. It's not really,

Re: Women wanted as games programmers

2005-05-11 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 11/05/2005, at 7:32 PM, Hanna M. Wallach wrote: Josie Fraser first alerted me to the Guardian article in her blog post (http://fraser.typepad.com/edtechuk/2005/05/uk_computer_gam.html) a couple of days ago. She makes a great point: "The University are going to hold some taster days to try and ad

Re: Women wanted as games programmers

2005-05-11 Thread Hanna M. Wallach
> oh, and don't you think it would be nice to have a collective > non-blog space to collect interesting links? i've been fishing > around on the d-w wiki and on the webpage but i don't see any > collected links. maybe a debian-women account on http://del.icio.us > would be cool? Fabienne, I real

Re: Women wanted as games programmers

2005-05-11 Thread Hanna M. Wallach
> Rock! :) Just a quick comment on this, I don't think that the cars and guns > thing is what puts girls off some games, it is the ridiculous pigeon-holing > of women in those games that leaves the bad taste. I loved playing quake, > doom, wolfenstein, metal slug and a bunch of other shoot-em-ups a

Re: Women wanted as games programmers

2005-05-11 Thread Hanna M. Wallach
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4530583.stm Thanks for pointing that out, Helen. The Guardian has an article on this too (http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1479780,00.html), which includes a couple of interesting statistics: "Women make up only 17% of the industry's work