Re: Fighting Impostor Syndrome

2013-08-16 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:55:47AM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote [edited]: > One of the things that came up during the DebConf talk on Women in > Debian is that a lot of women (and men as well) are affected by > impostor syndrome. This is when you feel that you are not good enough > to "be here

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

2011-04-21 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 04:26:24PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote [edited]: > On IRC it was mentioned that it might be a good idea to migrate to > ikiwiki, using the new Debian website design, as dsa.debian.org does. > However, since we don't want any nasty people messing with the site, > we'd li

lwn article on sexual harassment in geek events

2010-12-02 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
http://lwn.net/Articles/417952/ (note that the article will not be publicly available for another week or so) -S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2010

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-27 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:36:15AM +0100, Lesley Binks wrote [edited]: > I don't know how much work that takes or how well automated it is > e.g.. have person x who wants to help, possibly on (a) particular > package(s) or any package in a particular activity (e.g. music, LaTeX > ) or using partic

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:22:16PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:11:48PM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > [this is really a shameless plug, but here goes] > > I'd like to draw the attention of mentors to wnpp-by-tags as the place to [..] > >

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
[this is really a shameless plug, but here goes] I'd like to draw the attention of mentors to wnpp-by-tags as the place to point aspiring packagers that don't know where to start. wnpp-by-tags helps one to match their interests/skills in terms of debtag facets. For instance, one that's interested

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-20 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi Marga -- great idea! On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 02:56:49PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote [edited]: > Another conflict that came to my mind was about the content. At the > first moment, I had though it'd be nice to have a very tech oriented > event, with very high levels in the contents of the t

Re: General list behavior and suggestions [Was: Re: Further to: ...]

2009-07-11 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 05:31:49PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote [edited]: > On Thu, 09 Jul 2009, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:18:10PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote [edited]: > > > In the future, if you run into threads like this it's best t

Re: Further to: Re: About the recent events in the Rails community about using explicit sexual contents in slides

2009-07-09 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:18:10PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote [edited]: > In the future, if you run into threads like this it's best to contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org; I don't think any of us actually read > debian-u...@ldo, so we'd miss a thread like this unless it's pointed > out. Would w