Re: dame_gender

2020-05-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
El lun., 25 may. 2020 a las 16:28, David Arroyo Menendez () escribió: > And I've created an article to explain that I'm receiving an > heterophobic agression in this community: > https://cienciabasura.wordpress.com/2020/05/25/homofobias-heterosexualidades-y-actitudes/ You're obviously free to pub

Re: dame_gender

2020-04-04 Thread Miriam Ruiz
El dom., 5 abr. 2020 a las 0:34, Jessica Clarke () escribió: > And in fact, quoting the text at the bottom of your comic: > > > There is a difference between ‘that’s a shitty argument’ and ‘you’re a > > shitty person’. > > I saw Miry as trying to ensure it doesn't devolve into the latter. That w

Re: dame_gender

2020-04-04 Thread Miriam Ruiz
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 12:02:05AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > > > Debian Code of Conduct: https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct.en.html > > Any code of conduct that does not distinguish between harm done to a > marginalized group and the response to that harm is in

Re: dame_gender

2020-04-04 Thread Miriam Ruiz
El sáb., 4 abr. 2020 a las 23:53, Jessica Clarke () escribió: > > On 4 Apr 2020, at 22:48, Saiph Savage wrote: > > > The project being proposed is sexist and transphobic. You can’t be polite. > > Kudos to J.M Faer for raising a voice. We would not normalize that these > types of projects are ac

Re: dame_gender

2020-04-04 Thread Miriam Ruiz
El vie., 3 abr. 2020 a las 15:42, J. M. Faer () escribió: > No, no, no. You’re looking for a woman’s free labor for an inherently, > irreparably sexist and transphobic project. El sáb., 4 abr. 2020 a las 19:06, J. M. Faer () escribió: > And what I’m saying is that there are more than two genders

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2018-11-12 Thread Miriam Ruiz
I don't know yet for sure, but I might eventually go. It might be nice to organize something along those lines. Greetings, Miry El lun., 12 nov. 2018 a las 12:19, Adriana Cássia () escribió: > > Hi! > > Anyone is going to Fosdem? > > https://fosdem.org/2019/ > > I was wondering to propose a sprint

Re: Debian Women lunch @ DebConf 18

2018-08-08 Thread Miriam Ruiz
I haven't been able to attend DebConf 18 this year, so I couldn't attend Debian Women lunch at DebConf 18. Thus, I don't have any first hand information about what was spoken there, apart from Ulrike's email. I wanted to comment something, though, about my personal view on something that Holger com

Re: DebConf18 Gender Forum

2018-05-31 Thread Miriam Ruiz
>> have been attending some conferences about gender, and we can discuss >> about some ideas for the panel. >> >> >>> There is only one speaker confirmed. She is one of major activists >>> in the local transgender rights movement. She is using Ubuntu

Re: DebConf18 Gender Forum

2018-04-05 Thread Miriam Ruiz
It might be a good starting point to figure out what we might want to talk about, in the context of this forum, regarding the extensive area of "gender", and what are the goals that we want to pursue. Gender is a very extensive concept that has broad effects in all the aspects of our lifes: social,

Re: Please update the debian logo of your service

2016-02-01 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2016-01-31 22:02 GMT+01:00 Laura Arjona Reina : > El 31/01/16 a las 21:17, Stefano Zacchiroli escribió: >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 09:06:23PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: >>> After one month of showing logos with the mourning ribbon, and having >>> honoured the memory of Ian Murdock in FOSDEM t

About Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-05-03 Thread Miriam Ruiz
I've been talking with STK developers this afternoon. They are nice and collaborative, and we have had an interesting chat. I plan to make a new blog post about it, but it was a friendly approach and they are nice people. Meanwhile, for the sake of completeness of information, this is a screenshot

Re: Concern about racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-05-03 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2015-05-03 20:49 GMT+02:00 Letna : > I frankly consider this thread quizzical: first there were accusation > of racism and sexism, then the racism accusation was dropped (after > a message by a Mexican Debian Developer), then the request was to shield > children from naked skin and lastly the thre

Re: Concern about racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-05-03 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2015-05-03 20:29 GMT+02:00 Catherine Gramze : > I agree that talking to upstream is unlikely to help. If they thought > replacing a neutral character with Sara was a good idea then they are not > likely to see any issues with Sara. They like her and want her in the game. I > think they will con

Re: Concern about racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-05-03 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2015-05-03 20:31 GMT+02:00 Letna : > I see from your comment that (as many in this thread), you haven't played > the game. This is a video depicting Sara and her kart [1], far far > different from your allusive description. > > [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAgyfnuc9FQ That seems to be two

Re: Concern about racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-05-03 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2015-05-03 19:46 GMT+02:00 Letna : > Woops forgot the link > > [1] http://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6325 That was posted 2 days ago ("01 May 2015, 20:54"). It's kind of suspicious (all this discussion started the 28th of April). Honestly, from outside at least, it seems like some

Re: Concern about racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-05-03 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2015-05-03 12:24 GMT+02:00 : > I am devastated. > > In trying to understand the role of sexism in the game community, I have > discovered that this is not an isolated issue of this game: No, it is certainly not, and it's not even exclusive of video games. It kind of extends throughout many other

Re: Concern about racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-05-02 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2015-05-03 0:41 GMT+02:00 Vincent Lejeune : > I attached the patches in the mail. > remove_sara_pants_animation.patch can be aplied on 0.8.1 (which is > already shipping in debian testing). > The others 2 removes the monkeys in cocoa_temple and the women in > bikini in gran paradisio island. Lots

Re: Concern about racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-05-01 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2015-05-01 18:39 GMT+02:00 Vincent Lejeune : > Actually it is not inappropriate in a age rating perspective. > It's rather : a game that was presented as a family game and which had > a non human cast for years is now adopting the stance of an > heterosexual male point of view. > It's virtually ac

Re: Concern about racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-05-01 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2015-05-01 17:22 GMT+02:00 Ansgar Burchardt : > Anyway, I don't think this is still relevant to debian-devel-games@ and > will try to end the discussion here. I don't see how this won't be relevant for the Debian Games Team, when the package is currently maintained by the Debian Games Team [1].

Re: Content rating

2015-04-30 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2015-04-30 23:28 GMT+02:00 : > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:17:50PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: >> I think it's fair at least to ask for the package description to alert >> of what's inside the package, honestly and explicitly. Then each >> parent could decide wheth

Re: Concern about racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-04-30 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2015-04-30 23:05 GMT+02:00 : > Hi, > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 09:26:23PM +0200, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >> To be honest I'm hoping a bit that having downstream discussing the >> representation in STK may make they change their mind. > > While I much appreciate the concern for the way a kid-oriente

Re: Concern about racism and sexism in Supertuxkart 0.9

2015-04-29 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2015-04-30 7:44 GMT+02:00 Vincent Cheng : > Vincent, have you tried approaching the upstream developers and > starting a discussion with them with the goal of getting this fixed > upstream? I appreciate that you've brought your concerns about STK to > debian-women for discussion, but as maintainer

What do you think of Tolvalds words about FOSS needing more people good at mediating instead of calming tone and attitude?

2015-01-21 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, I just happened to find this interview to Torvalds [1], after what happened in his keynote speech at the Linux.conf.au Conference in Auckland, New Zealand [2]. He doesn't really say too much that we don't already know, but I wanted to quote the last sentence in the article and ask what other p

Re: Debian Women Introduction

2014-06-14 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-06-14 9:44 GMT+02:00 Kevin Mark : > Hi Yehuda and Brenda, > That's great info that you provided. > Just a few more bits. > There is an Organization 'Open Hatch', they typically visit campuses in the US > and do 'on boarding' for various open source projects by doing a presentation > about wha

Re: Debian Women Introduction

2014-06-12 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-06-12 9:17 GMT+02:00 Yehuda Korotkin : > Hello Debian Women, > > My name is Yehuda Korotkin and I teach technologies in one of leading > colleges for women in Israel. > Welcome!!! :) > I thought about the possibility of introduce Debian and the Debian > community to the girls that i teach.

Re: How many of the GSoC students are female?

2014-04-23 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-04-23 19:11 GMT+02:00 Daniel Pocock : > Just to clarify, Juliana hasn't been selected to reduce the gender gap, > but because based on a range of criteria, she was the best candidate for > the task. I don't think I ever suggested otherwise. Miry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-r

Re: How many of the GSoC students are female?

2014-04-23 Thread Miriam Ruiz
17:45 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Dandrimont : > * Miriam Ruiz [2014-04-23 14:47:42 +0200]: > >> Hi, > > Hi Miriam, > >> I have just seen the list of GSoC students in planet: >> >> http://bits.debian.org/2014/05/welcome-gsoc-students-2014.html >> >> >From

How many of the GSoC students are female?

2014-04-23 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, I have just seen the list of GSoC students in planet: http://bits.debian.org/2014/05/welcome-gsoc-students-2014.html >From a quick glance of the names, I have the impression that the current proportion is 1 female / 19 students, am I right? That would be slightly above 5% (of course, you ca

Re: FYI: debian-legal is discussing the inclusion in the Debian archive of "erotic" interactive fiction depicting the sexual abuse of children

2014-03-14 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-03-14 11:30 GMT+01:00 Vincent Cheng : > (If replying to me via debian-women or debian-legal, please cc me as > I'm not subscribed to those lists.) > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > >> 3) Up to now, there hasn't been an actual proposal of

Re: FYI: debian-legal is discussing the inclusion in the Debian archive of "erotic" interactive fiction depicting the sexual abuse of children

2014-03-14 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-03-14 9:59 GMT+01:00 Jo Shields : > *TRIGGER WARNING* in case it wasn't painfully obvious for this thread by > now. Thanks for the warning. Just for the record, I can confirm that there has been people already triggered by all this situation. We can't forget that, as the "global prevalence of

Re: debian-women / female GSoC candidates

2014-03-14 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-03-14 10:02 GMT+01:00 Daniel Pocock : > Hi, > > There are several female candidates for GSoC (both in Debian and also in > Ganglia where I am one of the admins this year) > > I'm just wondering if there are any female DDs who may not want to be a > mentor for any arbitrary project but may par

Re: Re: FYI: debian-legal is discussing the inclusion in the Debian archive of "erotic" interactive fiction depicting the sexual abuse of children

2014-03-11 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-03-11 23:34 GMT+01:00 Jo Shields : >> I honestly believe that almost none of those of us discusing the game >> has even tried it (I haven't at least) and I don't think anyone who >> hasn't even tested it can have a solid opinion. As far as I >> understand, we're all defining our position 2nd h

Re: FYI: debian-legal is discussing the inclusion in the Debian archive of "erotic" interactive fiction depicting the sexual abuse of children

2014-03-11 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-03-11 22:23 GMT+01:00 Sam Kuper : > Now that this conversation has descended into farce, I'm out. I only > hope that if the issue does cease to become moot[1] and Debian decides > to reject Unteralterbach (which, to repeat, I have no opinion about) > the project will not do so in a way that w

Re: FYI: debian-legal is discussing the inclusion in the Debian archive of "erotic" interactive fiction depicting the sexual abuse of children

2014-03-11 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-03-11 19:40 GMT+01:00 Tobias Hansen : > Am 11.03.2014 17:54, schrieb Miriam Ruiz: >> Right now there is no need to make any decision at all, it is >> in the hands of the FTP Masters, and we as a project trust them. > > As far as I am aware there is not even the need f

Re: FYI: debian-legal is discussing the inclusion in the Debian archive of "erotic" interactive fiction depicting the sexual abuse of children

2014-03-11 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-03-11 17:39 GMT+01:00 Mateusz Jończyk : >> There is a danger, if the Debian project falls prey to a moral panic, that it >> will self-censor to the extent of producing a chilling effect upon itself. > > This is not a "moral panic". A real harm is being done. > According to statistics [2] > "O

Re: FYI: debian-legal is discussing the inclusion in the Debian archive of "erotic" interactive fiction depicting the sexual abuse of children

2014-03-11 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-03-11 15:05 GMT+01:00 Daniel Pocock : > Is this within the scope of the FTP teams duties or should the FTP team > focus solely on the licensing/copyright adherence or does the FTP team > also screen things for more general compliance purposes? I would feel > that the latter would be a much b

Re: FYI: debian-legal is discussing the inclusion in the Debian archive of "erotic" interactive fiction depicting the sexual abuse of children

2014-03-11 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-03-11 14:55 GMT+01:00 Paul Tagliamonte : > The tone on that thread has been really respectful up until now; if > anyone does want to voice concern, please do maintain a very polite > tone. This is way too easy to get upset about (also, trigger warning on > the game and game description, it's

Re: Hello, I am new member

2014-03-10 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-03-09 17:01 GMT+01:00 Silvia Pérez : > > Hello > > My name is Silvia, I'm new on the list Hi Silvia!!! Welcome!!! :) Greetings, Miry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: "Girls and software"

2014-02-11 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2014-02-11 5:04 GMT+01:00 Martín Ferrari : > Even if the author seems to be looking for controversy, starting from > the title, I think there are many interesting points in this article: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software I don't think the title is the problematic thing, sh

Re: www.debian.org/women now in Spanish too

2013-09-30 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/9/29 Laura Arjona : > Hi all > I've 'recently' joined the www team to upload Spanish translations to > the website, so one more step in getting involved in Debian \o/ > > This weekend I have committed some pending updates, among them, the > info of debian.org/women/* in Spanish (profiles are o

Re: Packaging task for newbies: Separate pink-pony into program and data

2013-09-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, Sorry, the pink-pony issue in particular was finally solved by one of the newbies member of the Games Team, who stepped in really quick. but if you want, I can find other easy tasks to begin with :) Greetings, Miry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Packaging task for newbies: Separate pink-pony into program and data

2013-09-13 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/9/13 lesleyb > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 05:28:30PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Ive just uploaded pink-pony 1.3.1-1 to Debian [1] [2], and I've noticed > > that I should have separated the packages in program and data [3], > instead > >

Packaging task for newbies: Separate pink-pony into program and data

2013-09-13 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, Ive just uploaded pink-pony 1.3.1-1 to Debian [1] [2], and I've noticed that I should have separated the packages in program and data [3], instead of having it all packaged into one single package. The main advantage of that approach -usually done with games and with other programs that have c

Re: IRC meeting this Saturday

2013-09-04 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/9/4 Mònica Ramírez > On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 08:44 +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I'm interested in discussing more ideas of what we could do as Debian > > Women, to promote getting more women into Debian. We've had some > > ideas here on the list, but I think we are l

Re: Outreach Program for Women: next round

2013-09-03 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/9/3 Stefano Zacchiroli > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 02:54:09PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > 1. find people willing to act as "admins/organizers". Many people have > >expressed their willingness to help, but we still a least one person > >to do the coordination. > > I can't volunteer

Re: introduction

2013-09-02 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/9/2 Kinga Bernadett Böszörményi > Hi everyone, > Hi Kinga! Took me a while to start here. Today is school begin day in my country > and decided to begin my contribution here. But I still don't know how > may I help. I've some programming knowledge, can package small > programs. May try to

Re: Asking about what's going on with the mentoring program

2013-09-02 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/9/2 myr > Hi, > > On 02/09/13 09:39, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > The problem, from my point of view, is that it's not easy for someone > > who is a total outsider to suddenly start trusting somebody else, who > > they have not met. We want to provide a space where people are welcome > > t

Re: What do you think about a youtube series?

2013-08-30 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/8/30 Margarita Manterola > My little suvey hasn't had many answers yet, but one suggestion has > been to create a youtube channel with a series about doing work in > Debian, that would help people getting the ropes. > > I think this is an interesting idea, although I'm not 100% convinced > t

Re: D-W mailing list

2013-08-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
I think it's a nice initiative, and I certainly thank those links. They are interesting and talk about things that I guess some of us think about. During our talk, Enrico suggested how a publicly accesible and archived mailing list as open as this might raise concerns on the people, though. I wond

Re: Debconf proposal, but I need presenter

2013-05-31 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/5/31 Laura Arjona : > 2013/5/31 Miriam Ruiz : >> >> I plan to be there too, I would be happy to help. >> > Thanks Miry! > >> I was thinking, wouldn't it be nice if you could also be there via >> videoconference, if you can't be there in per

Re: Debconf proposal, but I need presenter

2013-05-31 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/5/29 Patty Langasek : > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 02:36:38PM +0200, Laura Arjona wrote: >> The main problem is that I am not going to the conference (I wish I >> could!). I would not mind (would like very much in fact!) other person >> to present the work there. >> Anybody interested? > > I'm h

Re: Debian and Politeness

2013-05-27 Thread Miriam Ruiz
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

Re: Debian and Politeness

2013-05-27 Thread Miriam Ruiz
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 misinte

Re: Debian and Politeness

2013-05-20 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/5/20 Angela Fuß : > Hej Miriam, > >> Free Software is about meritocracy and elitism, or at least it >> pretends to be. > > Can you explain that part a bit more? > Is that something that you sense or think how it is? > Or is it something that people say about Free Software or Debian? > Does Deb

Debian and Politeness

2013-05-20 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, I just wanted to move here an issue that arises now and then in Debian. That is, politeness and friendliness vs. technical competence. Quite a few people in the Free Software world seem to think -wrongly, in my opinion- that both things are opposed, and that a technical competent person won't

Re: Translating "Debian Women"

2013-05-16 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/5/16 Christian PERRIER : > And, yes, I fully agree with Jordi that the idea that the male form is > a neutral form. It is not. And, contrary to what people who like to > make jokes about all this, this is *not* a minor problem. +1 I totally agree with you both. The male form used as neutral

Re: Translating "Debian Women"

2013-05-16 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/5/16 A : > Hi all! > > Greek is a gendered language too. One way we found to make it more neutral > in written form is by inserting @ at the end of the gendered word, instead > of the gendered suffix. So, "si está interesado/a.." would be written as "si > está interesad@.." Just an idea That

Re: Mentors

2012-11-06 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2012/11/4 Lisi Reisz : > So although she wants to be a maintainer, and finds studying how to be one > from manuals difficult, she is not going to ask for a mentor. > > So often, women are their own worst enemies. :-( You can't help those who don't want to be helped. Don't worry too much about it

Re: Ana Carolina and Monica finally in DD-land!

2012-03-29 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2012/3/29 Francesca Ciceri : > Hi Debian Women people, > > probably who was in the last days on our IRC chan already knows it, > but... > > ... Ana Carolina Comandulli and Monica Ramirez Arceda are now Debian > Developers! > > I had the pleasure to meet both at DC11 and I just want to say that I'm

Re: New Debian developer: madamezou

2011-06-09 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2011/6/9 Erinn Clark : > * Christian PERRIER [2011:06:09 07:09 +0200]: >> >New Debian Contributors >> >--- >> >> >Nine applicants have been accepted [24] as Debian Developers, two >> >applicants have been accepted [25] as Debian Maintainers, and eight >> >people have started to

Re: D-W at DebConf

2011-04-29 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2011/4/29 Meike Reichle : > Hi all > > I've seen some people mentioning a DW event at DebConf, that is, that it > would be nice to have one again. Unless I've missed something there were no > volunteers yet. I am planning to attend DebConf, so I volunteer to take care > of that. I'll submit a propo

Re: Project for someone with time and will: website update

2011-04-28 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2011/4/28 Karolina Kalic : > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 20:02, Lesley Binks > wrote: >> >> On 28 April 2011 17:47, Karolina Kalic wrote: > >> Why should we make it harder on ourselves just so some bloke(!) can >> get the kudos of having built a website for part of the Debian project? > > Because o

Re: Updating stats, thinking about what to do

2011-04-18 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2011/4/18 Margarita Manterola : > Hey all, Hi! > Today, after chatting a bit with Meike, I took the time to update the > stats and the graph located at > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Statistics Thanks! Those stats are really useful to know what's going on. > Since I did it last year, we'v

Re: Slides about Women in Free Software

2011-01-13 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2011/1/13 Don Armstrong : > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Miriam Ruiz wrote: >> 2011/1/13 Lars Wirzenius : >> > A better solution than slides designed for indepent reading is to have a >> > separate document for that. In many cases it can be just the outline one >> > wri

Re: Slides about Women in Free Software

2011-01-13 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2011/1/13 Lars Wirzenius : > A better solution than slides designed for indepent reading is to have a > separate document for that. In many cases it can be just the outline one > writes before making the slides. Indeed, making such an outline often > results in a better presentation, and better sl

Re: Slides about Women in Free Software

2011-01-12 Thread Miriam Ruiz
g about all those things. If it is interesting, we could even think of planning a BoF or workshop or something for next DebConf. > Miriam Ruiz wrote: >> [3] http://www.slideshare.net/inniyah/women-in-free-software-musac-len-2010 >> (English) > > I read the slides in Eng

Slides about Women in Free Software

2011-01-07 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, On the 12th of November 2010 I participated in a meeting about Free Software, Art and Women [1], talking about Women in Free Software. I have finally finished translating my slides [2] into English [3], in case someone might be interested in them. They are also available for download [4] in bo

Re: [proposal/poll] $distro-women BoF at FOSDEM?

2010-12-13 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/12/13 Anne Ghisla : >> For what concern me, I think it could be a great chance. And I'm available to >> organize it (with some help) :) > > I fully second the proposal, and am willing to help in organise it! I > participated to DUCC-IT and I look forward for more discussion on the > topic. I

Fwd: FOSDEM 2011 call for talks

2010-09-30 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi all! :) Are we interested in this? Greetings, Miry -- Forwarded message -- From: Wouter Verhelst Date: 2010/9/30 Subject: FOSDEM 2011 call for talks To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org, d...@debian.org Hello World, Debian has been a constant presence at FOSDEM for

Re: presentation & wanting to contribute

2010-09-29 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/9/29 Mònica : > Hello, > > First, I would like to introduce myself: my name is Mònica, I am an IT > teacher and have been in free software world for some years. Specifically, > I've been using Debian for, more or less, 10 years and have been > collaborating with some local groups to promote

Re: request for approval and review- announce for DW round table in Perugia

2010-09-12 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/9/12 Erinn Clark : > * Francesca Ciceri [2010:09:12 10:54 +0200]: >> Can I speak in the "Debian Women" name? And what you think about it? > > Yes, by all means. And this sounds really great, I can't wait to hear how it > goes! Yay! Go for them, Francesca! :) Greetings, Miry -- To UNSUBSC

Re: [LOL] about male's behaviour on IRC

2010-09-01 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/9/1 Llanos : > Hi > I didn't want to offend anyone, I understand you point but I reckon this > joke in particular is kind of neutral (kind of).  It makes a joke for both > sides and I personally don't think they are rude or can offend seriously but > as Miry says it might do. Apologies for it

Re: [LOL] about male's behaviour on IRC

2010-09-01 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/9/1 Fernanda G Weiden : > I have the impression this thread is going down a dangerous path... I kind of agree. Take into account that we're a multicultural and multinational project, that involves very diverse people with very different sensibilities. This means that it's quite likely that s

Re: [proposal] IRC Meeting

2010-08-30 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/8/30 Francesca Ciceri : > 3. Statistics: ok, we have done the first step. We have some numbers on > which discuss. But I think we can analyze much deeper this number, or if we > need, add more. I can try to compile a stastics for male DD/DM to compare the > female contributors statistics to s

Re: proposal social networking link icon in the site and feed aggregation

2010-08-29 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/8/26 Alice Ferrazzi : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/26/2010 09:05 AM, Maia Kozheva wrote: >> It's not Twitter. I'm allergic to microblogging in general. Identi.ca is >> not any better in not causing me to attempt to claw my eyeballs out. So >> sick of seeing refer

Re: resource availability and (naive) ideas

2010-08-29 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/8/29 Helen Faulkner : > > > OK, it's time I got my act together.  I'll run the mentoring program again, if > you like and if nobody else steps up to do it.  I am absolutely happy for > someone else to step up to do it, though. Yay!!! It will be great to have you back!!! /me hugs helen happ

Re: resource availability and (naive) ideas

2010-08-26 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/8/26 Margarita Manterola : > So, I've been thinking about this, and it's not like we don't have > enough women: we have between 20 and 30 active women, maybe more, and > that's a big enough number to have a small meeting.  However, we are > all over the world, flying to an in-person meeting t

Re: Trying to get conclusions from Debian Women Statistics

2010-08-26 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/8/26 Margarita Manterola : > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > >> if those first uploaders keep contributing without turning into DDs or >> DMs, or if they just get tired and go away. Would it be possible to >> also have some data comparing the d

Trying to get conclusions from Debian Women Statistics

2010-08-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi all! Looking at the graph at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Statistics has made me think. The blue line is increasing at a some speed (about 3 or 4 first uploads per year), what means that we're constantly having new women doing packaging stuff. On the other side, the red an yellow lines do

Re: resource availability and (naive) ideas

2010-08-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/8/26 स्वक्ष : > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 00:54, Francesca Ciceri wrote: >> >> Maybe a Ubuntu/Debian-Women meeting? ;) > > Fantastic idea. I'd love to see a collaboration between UW and DW. We > are having our meet tomorrow so this is something that should be on > the agenda :) At which time i

Re: Statistics of female participation in packing in Debian

2010-08-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/8/24 Margarita Manterola : > I know.  But that's one of the things that we are trying to fix with > debian-women, isn't it?  There is nothing wrong with being a woman, > and there should be nothing wrong about letting the world know about > it.  In any case, we obviously wouldn't want to list

Re: Intro

2010-07-01 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2010/6/1 Mackenzie Morgan : > Hello, > I'm Mackenzie. I've been hanging out in #debian-women IRC intermittently over > the last year or so I suppose. It depends how often I'm connecting to OFTC at > the time, though it's been more lately as I navigate the Mentors process.  I'm > now co-maintaining

Media query: article on women who contribute to Debian

2010-01-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, Sam Varghese of iTWire has told me that he's interested in doing a piece about women in the Debian project and has sent me the following queries to be posted on this list, in case someone else is interested in contributing. I think it might be a good way to give a bit more visibility to the pr

OWNED: MikeeUSA's code in geekfeminism.org

2009-10-19 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, If you have ever been harassed by MikeeUSA and wanna have a laugh, take a look at http://geekfeminism.org/2009/10/19/mikeeusas-code-now-available-on-geekfeminism-org/ More info: http://geekfeminism.org/tag/mikeeusa/ and http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/MikeeUSA Greetings, Miry -- To UN

Re: shebuntu debian project

2009-09-30 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/9/30 Rayna : > Hi all, > > I'm new to Debian-women, that's my first posting on the list ;o) Welcome!!! :) Greetings, Miry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: shebuntu debian project

2009-09-29 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/9/29 myriam leggieri : > I'm an italian girl and a computer science  master student. > I'd like to enlight (even if against my own interest) the Ivan's > nationality. You other human beings should comprehend him: he sees > half-naked or bitch-weared women/girls/"female children" not only on >

Re: shebuntu debian project

2009-09-29 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/9/29 Ivan Serra : > Hi to All > My name is Ivan fro Italy and I'm Ubuntu user and I love this OS > I created a new project on Launchpad and I'm just asking you help about that > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntushe Hi Ivan, First of all, thanks for acknowledging that there is a problem and tryi

Re: let's not move backwards

2009-09-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/9/10 martin f krafft : > also sprach Miriam Ruiz [2009.09.10.1137 +0200]: >> I'm just thinking aloud, but I wonder if it might make sense to >> also have a women-only mailing list, so that women who otherwise >> wouldn't intervene can do it, kinda Systers or th

Re: DW Mailing List: Would it be better if it was not archived?

2009-09-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/9/15 Ursula Junque : > Hi MIriam, Hi :) > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > I wonder why would this be a problem. If you discuss technical stuff > (or are we talking about other stuff?), all lists everywhere are > archived so other people with simila

DW Mailing List: Would it be better if it was not archived?

2009-09-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, One of the reasons -among others- that new women don't write in the mailing list might be that the messages are being publicly archived and exposed forever, and that could be quite intimidating. Do you think it might help if the messages weren't archived? Greetings, Miry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-09-10 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/9/10 Lisi Reisz : > On Thursday 10 September 2009 17:34:14 Don Armstrong wrote: >> The reason why the comment appears to be sexist to at least a few of >> us[1] is because it attributes motives to an individual based purely >> on their perceived gender, and attempts to extrapolate from that to

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-09-10 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/9/10 Erinn Clark : > IMO those lists are probably sufficient for women-only mailing lists. I > don't think we need to fracture d-w, especially given its "recent" > amount of inactivity. That's probably the bad side of my proposal. Will this new mailing list lower or raise the activity level?

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-09-10 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/9/10 Holger Levsen : > On Mittwoch, 26. August 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: >> It seems to me that this comment is sexist, and has no place on any Debian >> mailing list. > > It seemed and seems to me you were trolling here :-( I'm just thinking aloud, but I wonder if it might make sense to al

Re: Good manners, Good tone and welfare of DD's, NM and prospective developers

2009-08-28 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/6/4 Dmitrijs Ledkovs : > I would love to see friendly, safe and respectful behavior towards > each other on mailing lists & other communication channel's within > debian. I don't know but maybe a code of conduct (e.g. [2]) is > something appropriate to be popularized in Debian? > > What are y

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/8/25 Christian Perrier : > Quoting Jordi Gutiérrez Hermos (jord...@gmail.com): > >> I'm rambling... but I really hope I managed to offend a little less >> this time... and I hope I didn't make it worse. > > .../... > > You didn't. > > You did something that's very hard to do, particularly in a

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/8/25 : > So Holger, I don't know if you are a man or a woman but your joke is just > simply > not funny and insulting for technical women. I think that you have been mistaken. Holger was not the one that made the joke, and in fact he did complain about it in a very serious way: 2009/8/25

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/8/25 Anne Ghisla : > Il giorno mar, 25/08/2009 alle 16.20 +0200, Ana Guerrero ha scritto: >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 01:52:21PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermos wrote: >> > 2009/8/24 Holger Levsen : >> > > Why? It's not obvious to me. I think not having any men there would >> > > attract >> > >

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-24 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/8/24 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermos : > 2009/8/24 Holger Levsen : >> Why? It's not obvious to me. I think not having any men there would attract >> some women who would otherwise not joiin. > > So... > > Could Caster Semenya go to the event or not? ;-) I think those kind of jokes are out of place her

Spanish Debian Women BoF at DebConf 9

2009-07-25 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, We're arranging a meeting between Spanish-speaking women interested in a Spanish chapter of the Debian Women Project. We're gonna meet at 12:00 today (Sunday 26) in the BoF room. If you're interested, please come :) Greetings, Miry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.deb

Re: new member presentation

2009-07-20 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/7/18 Alice Ferrazzi : > Hello, > I just thought it might be cool to introduce myself, > i'm Alice Ferrazzi from italy, Hi Alice! Welcome! :) Greetings, Miry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

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