Re: the experience of Arab women in FOSS

Quoting Bruce Byfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi: > > As you may know, in countries such as Saudi Arabia, many women feel > constrained about revealing their gender and names on-line. I am > preparing a story for Newsforge about this phenomenon, especially as it > applies to the FOSS community. One

the experience of Arab women in FOSS

Hi: As you may know, in countries such as Saudi Arabia, many women feel constrained about revealing their gender and names on-line. I am preparing a story for Newsforge about this phenomenon, especially as it applies to the FOSS community. One aspect that would be especially interesting is the que

Re: Software Freedom Day -- UPDATE

Helen Faulkner wrote: OK, there is a moral about writing things without proofreading them afterwards. Helen Faulkner wrote: OK, so this one is my "baby". We will set up a #debian-women-new IRC channel on the irc.oftc.org network, running from to 2359 on 10th September. There may be furt

Re: female_package_maintainers ++

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 07:55 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > In short (I never can do short, I'm afraid), let's congratulate > Christine and wish her the best for her future long life as a Debian > contributor and developer. Cheers! And I also thank her for contributing with a useful patch on gn

Re: Article: Open-source needs more women developers

martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.29.0155 +0200]: > >>Would a German speaker mind telling us roughly what that article says, and >>what >>it says about Debian Women? > > > - there's prejudice against women in software, despite all the > important

Re: Article: Open-source needs more women developers

> - The article ends with the hope that more women get active in DW. And mentions that Debian has a better gender ratio than Linux kernel development. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Article: Open-source needs more women developers

also sprach Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.29.0155 +0200]: > Would a German speaker mind telling us roughly what that article says, and > what > it says about Debian Women? - there's prejudice against women in software, despite all the important female contributors in history. - re

Re: Article: Open-source needs more women developers

gregor herrmann wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:00:56PM +0300, Christina Haralanova wrote: > > >>A friend of mine has just e-mailed me the following article, which is >>mentioning the DW project; you can read below! > > > I also found an article mentioning DW, in the current issue of the >

Re: Article: Open-source needs more women developers

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:00:56PM +0300, Christina Haralanova wrote: > A friend of mine has just e-mailed me the following article, which is > mentioning the DW project; you can read below! I also found an article mentioning DW, in the current issue of the (German) Linux-Magazin: