Hi all
I don't know the Debian community very well either, but since I am
around here (let's say 3-4 years) I feel it welcoming, polite and
quite inclusive (the D-W subproject already had some years, the Debian
Diversity Statement was written and published, last months the OPW
proposals...).
I may
Many thanks to Myriam for the heads-up.
First of all, may I congratulate Myriam and fellow volunteers at the first
Rails Girls Galway - it was a very successful event with +60 enthusiastic
and energetic female participants. One could hardly believe that there was
a gender issue in free/open source
2013/5/27 Angela Fuß :
> As I do not know the Debian Community very well so far I cannot say anything
> about meritocracy and elitism in Free Software Communities or in Debian.
Just for the record, I'm not against meritocracy. I think meritocracy
-real meritocracy- is a good thing. I was just mai
Hi Llanos,
I actually sent to this list a similar email a month ago or so, to
promote the Rails Girls workshop that was held in Galway, Ireland, last
week.
Yuwei Lin, from Debian Women, gave a lightning talk about women in FLOSS:
http://blog.railsgirls.com/post/51465763345/women-coding-with-r
Apologies if this is a bit off topic as it's not Debian related but
it's women and open source technologies related so I thought it could
be relevant for some women (or men) on this list
http://railsgirls.com/
They deliver workshops and organize coding sessions to help women to
get programming r
Dear Miry,
My personal opinion is that for changing things, we have to be able to
acknowledge what's truly happening, and start moving from there. I
didn't say I was fully happy with the reality, in fact I'm not, and,
while I realize that some level of meritocracy is positive, my opinion
is that
On Monday 27 May 2013 10:22:56 Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> 2013/5/27 Lisi Reisz :
> > On Monday 20 May 2013 09:33:06 Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> >> Free Software is about meritocracy and elitism
> >
> > I have been unhappy with this since I first read it, and had held off
> > saying anything while I pondered.
>
2013/5/27 Lisi Reisz :
> On Monday 20 May 2013 09:33:06 Miriam Ruiz wrote:
>> Free Software is about meritocracy and elitism
>
> I have been unhappy with this since I first read it, and had held off saying
> anything while I pondered.
Just for the record, and to avoid misinterpretations, I was jus
On Monday 20 May 2013 09:33:06 Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> Free Software is about meritocracy and elitism
I have been unhappy with this since I first read it, and had held off saying
anything while I pondered.
I accept that, in theory at least, OSS is about meritoctracy. But the
word "elite" jars. I
Hej Mathieu,
Also, too: the way I understood it is possibly or amongst other
things as a reference to an article published in New Media & Society
which was mentioned on this list I think a few months ago. The
article (whose exact title and author evades me right now but I
could produce i
Hej Sam
To add to the answer that Miriam has supplied, I would like to suggest
that if that sentence puzzled you, then you may be interested to read
/The Rise of the Meritocracy/ (1958) by Michael Young, which is the
work that introduced the word "meritocracy" to the English language.
It's quite
Hej again,
Well, it is generally considered that Free Software projects are a
meritocracy [1], meaning that "an elite group of people whose progress
is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or
wealth" [2]. Ideally, whenever a project is ruled by pure meritocracy,
people woul
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