Re: Questions and comments regarding Debian Women

2011-04-25 Thread Penny Leach
27;s a largely quiet one now, is reassuring) and maybe doing more advocacy and outreach, as others have said. At any rate, A+ for awesomeness. Cheers, P -- /* --- Penny Leach | http://mjollnir.org | http://she.geek.nz GPG: 8347 00FC B5BF 6CC0 0FC9 AB90 1875 120A A30E C22B --- */ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Ada Lovelace Day - pledge

2009-02-11 Thread Penny Leach
lists with that quote and without the pledgebank context... it just seemed a bit negative. Anyway it's awesome that people are doing this anyway. I just think the psychological effects of language like in this case are interesting. Cheers, P -- /* ---

Re: Ada Lovelace Day - pledge

2009-02-11 Thread Penny Leach
echnology whom I admire, it would be awesome if lots of other people do the same!" It just seems ... more positive somehow. Penny -- /* ------- Penny Leach | http://mjollnir.org | http://she.geek.nz GPG: 8347 00F

Re: Why the Widening Gender Gap in Computer Science?

2008-11-25 Thread Penny Leach
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Hmm, have gotten very off-topic here. Sorry to those who are bored with the > direction this thread is taking.) definitely! it's interesting but a very big tangent :) > To get back on topic, does anyone think that CS

Re: Why the Widening Gender Gap in Computer Science?

2008-11-25 Thread Penny Leach
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ask because I'm in Australia, and in most cases Australia and New Zealand > are > extremely culturally similar. And in Australia it's true that women, > especially > those with children, still do the majority of pare

Re: New Zealand Linxuchix chapter

2007-02-26 Thread Penny Leach
On 2/27/07, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Feel free to tell me to just go and see the website, but, as usual, I'm reading my mail offline and can't check right now. http://www.linuxchix.org/content/chapters/ :) How many (and which) chapters are there for Linuxchix? Summary fr

New Zealand Linxuchix chapter

2007-02-26 Thread Penny Leach
Dear Debian Women: I guess it's possible there are other .nz women reading this list other than me, so: == Tuesday 27 February - Announcing Linuxchix New Zealand. LinuxChix NZ is a community for women who like Linux, and for women and men who want

Re: women in IT (in AU)

2006-10-31 Thread Penny Leach
On 10/31/06, Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A complete different view of the one I have from my chair right now: from about 35 people in this team only 6 are women (around 17%). ditto the company I work for (in New Zealand). Of a company of 70, I guess about 60 are geeks, of which w

Re: fedora women founded

2006-07-29 Thread Penny Leach
On 7/18/06, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems that debian women is such a great idea, that other projects dosomething similar:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Women?action="" & The slashdot article[0] is filled with the sorts of comments I had hoped were a bit more a thing of the p

Re: Now for something really controversial...

2006-07-11 Thread Penny Leach
On 7/12/06, Barton C Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My strong default preference at this point is for git.  Itworks well, supports all the necessary features plus someextras, and is IMHO poised to be the default SCMS of choicefor a number of open source projects (besides kernel.org andx.org).  

Re: proposed addition to debian-women list filtering, please comment

2006-06-13 Thread Penny Leach
On 6/14/06, Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One other possibility would be to whitelist e-mails with validPGP-signatures from keys on the Debian keyring (and possiblyanother "whitelist" keyring that is only used for this purpose). Actually,this would be nice for all the Debian lists.

Re: Some thoughts regarding DW

2005-08-15 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ~ I wasn't involved with the thread or discussion in question on 16/8/05 1:45 PM Jutta Wrage said the following: | The problem is, if it needs hours of discussion, just to change the | page and make it accessible again, that really sucks, Everyone

Re: Some thoughts regarding DW

2005-08-14 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Hanna, everyone I have been keeping quiet on this topic so far, because I've been a little worried that my contribution to it would be perhaps coming from a slightly unfair, or too harsh standpoint, but after this email from Hanna I had to jump i

Re: adding gender field on debian developer's database (from debian-devel)

2005-08-01 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, on 2/8/05 11:45 AM Miriam Ruiz said the following: | I totally agree with Don. There are differences between the meaning of the | words "sex" and "gender", and you will be able to find quite a lot of | bibliography on that if you want. In case it

Re: Install-fest advices

2005-06-14 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | This HOWTO is full of pretty good advices: | http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~ladypine/installfest.html That's great, thanks heaps. Penny -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://eni

Re: install party in paris

2005-06-14 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Fabienne, on 27/4/05 9:16 AM Fabienne S said the following: | i'm throwing an install party in paris in two | weeks (saturday may 14th) if any of you on this list | are in town. drop me a line off the list and i'll | send you an invite. I'

Re: D-W t-shirts for Debconf5

2005-06-08 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey Hanna, | How about a black one of these in size small (30")? That sounds *excellent*. Thanks a lot! Penny -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQF

Re: D-W t-shirts for Debconf5

2005-06-08 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Hanna! on 9/6/05 9:06 AM Hanna M. Wallach said the following: | I'm planning to get Debian Women t-shirts printed for Debconf5. I will | be getting them plotter printed | (http://motifs.co.uk/plotterprinting.html) by Motifs.co.uk (whom I | have u

Re: DW-Map

2005-06-08 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 on 9/6/05 8:48 AM Miriam Ruiz said the following: | In my book, a Debian-Woman is anyone (male or female, so I guess it should | really rather be a "Debian-Women Person ;) ) who somehow contributes to | Debian-Women and/or it's aims. So, if you hang o

Re: Getting involved

2005-06-07 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Erinn, | There's some assorted information on http://debian.org/devel/ but | nothing terribly obvious that would be of any help to new people. Often | when people join Debian, they have no idea what to do, so what I'm | thinking is... I totally

Re: Mentoring Feedback

2005-03-21 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi David! Thanks for your review! David Nusinow wrote: | My first mentee felt uncomfortable with the bug system and wanted to learn | more about how it was used so she would feel confident when submitting and | manipulating bugs. So I decided to d

Re: DebConf5 in Finland

2005-03-15 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erinn Clark wrote: | Hi everyone, Hi, debian-women! | Many of you have already mentioned on IRC that you'll be going to DebConf5 | this year, but I wanted to see if anyone else who's not on IRC has thought | about it? Yes! I definitely want to go! Now i

Re: Anybody out there?

2005-02-11 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Erinn, everyone! | ...but I'm concerned. There's very little list discussion and I haven't | seen a lot of new faces showing up (though they do trickle in). Is there | something we should be doing to encourage more discussion? Does anyone have | any

Re: ITA

2005-02-09 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rudy, Thierry, thanks for your help! ~ Penny -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCCt4SGHUSCqMOwisRAkEUAKCroZKcWCvRlkz9He5N5Gl7eSzBnQCbBr0W lc7hfcVyXaU8

Re: ITA

2005-02-09 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Just send another email to control with that line Thanks! :) Do I send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or both? (Sorry for all questions, I want to get it right this time!) Cheers Penny -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4

Re: ITA

2005-02-09 Thread Penny Leach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Rudy, | It didn't failed, it has successfully retitled the bug. What happened | following is that is didn't stop processing, thus the errors. | You should put a "thanks", "stop", or "quit" to tell server stop | processing commands below. It'll also

ITA

2005-02-09 Thread Penny Leach
retitle & just the owner command? Thanks, Penny (red faced!) - Original Message Subject: Processed: Bug#294316: ITA: wmufo - This is wmseti on steroids! Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:33:05 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) To: Penny Leach <[EMAIL PR