Re: d-w website

2005-05-23 Thread Luk Claes
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Meike Reichle wrote: > Hi all Hi > As for me I am mainly concerned by the news section which is quite outdated. > > * What I did: > I copied the news from the two existing d-w weekly newsletters to the main > news section and will add more recent ones (DebConf, LinuxTag, ..

Re: d-w website

2005-05-23 Thread Luk Claes
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Meike Reichle wrote: > Hi all Hi again > * Open question: > Concerning the dwwn, do we really need them? Or wouldn't it be enough to put > official stuff in the news and internal discussions/announcements on the > mailing list? Aargh, acronyms: it's about the weekly news,

Re: d-w website

2005-05-23 Thread Meike Reichle
Hi all, hi Luk > Aargh, acronyms: it's about the weekly news, not about the wiki :-) Actually, yes ... > The idea of a weekly news is good, but I think it is not needed. If there > are important thing they can be mentioned on the mailing list and the > website or even sended to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Hanna M. Wallach
On Friday I met with two researchers working on "understanding gender issues in open source" as part of the FLOSSpols project. One of the (many) things we discussed was whether the women involved in free software projects tend to read as much science fiction as the men. (They're interested in this

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Hanna On Mon, 23 May 2005, Hanna M. Wallach wrote: > On Friday I met with two researchers working on "understanding gender > issues in open source" as part of the FLOSSpols project. One of the > (many) things we discussed was whether the women involved in free > software projects tend to read

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Hanna, Am 2005-05-23 15:31:11, schrieb Hanna M. Wallach: > On Friday I met with two researchers working on "understanding gender > issues in open source" as part of the FLOSSpols project. One of the > (many) things we discussed was whether the women involved in free > software projects tend

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread fabienne s
i am a HUGE william gibson fan, also neal stephenson and i've been hooked on the new doctor who television series (bbc 2005 sundays). but i used to be sort of anti sci fi because it was associated (in my mind) with being overtly geeky. but then i found gibson and since then, stephenson. righ

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Erinn Clark
* Hanna M. Wallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005:05:23 15:31 +0100]: > -- do you read science fiction? No, despite people's best efforts to get me to. (I don't read much fiction either, nor do I watch sci-fi shows.) -- off the chain like a rebellious guanine nucleotide signature.asc Description:

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread fabienne s
oh and i forgot to mention i read a lot of [occasionally illegible] man pages. and math treatises. and electrical engineering handbooks. and acoustical theory textbooks. and digital audio technology specification documents. ---fabienne fabienne s wrote: i am a HUGE william gibson fan, also nea

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Michelle Klein-Hass
On 5/23/05, fabienne s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am a HUGE william gibson fan, also neal stephenson and i've been > hooked on the new doctor who television series (bbc 2005 sundays). > > but i used to be sort of anti sci fi because it was associated (in my > mind) with being overtly geeky. b

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Akkana Peck
Hanna M. Wallach writes: > -- do you read science fiction? I do, though less than I used to -- I've been on a nonfiction kick lately, and even occasionally reading mainstream fiction, which I seldom used to do. In my teens and twenties pretty much the only fiction I read was SF or fantasy.

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
> -- do you read science fiction? Almost all the fiction I read is science fiction or fantasy. Most of what I watch as well, I've gone to see Episode 3 in the theater twice already, saw Hitchhikers last weekend, am all excited about the Serenity pre-release screening on Thursday, am "religiously"

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Javier Candeira
Javier Candeira, male, Spaniard, 38 Debian hanger-on, all-around non-technical person. I used to read boatloads of science fiction, and as far as I still read novels sometimes I do read some science fiction. I was a classic scifi fan (Heinlein, Leinster, Sheckley, Asimov, Clarke) and then I fe

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Meike Reichle
Hanna M. Wallach said/sagte: > On Friday I met with two researchers working on "understanding gender > issues in open source" as part of the FLOSSpols project. One of the > (many) things we discussed was whether the women involved in free > software projects tend to read as much science fiction as

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 23.05.2005 um 16:31 schrieb Hanna M. Wallach: One of the (many) things we discussed was whether the women involved in free software projects tend to read as much science fiction as the men. I think, it is partly a question of the age. For me I

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Christine Spang
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 15:31 +0100, Hanna M. Wallach wrote: > On Friday I met with two researchers working on "understanding gender > issues in open source" as part of the FLOSSpols project. One of the > (many) things we discussed was whether the women involved in free > software projects tend to re

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Christine Spang] > Currently I read more fantasy than Sci-Fi (cough, sig) - LotR, Feist, > George R. R. Martin and much of the like. I also am a big fan of a > lot of thrillers - Clancy, Cussler, etc. - which aren't Sci-Fi but > are often pretty tech-oriented. That got me thinking. Given that t

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Ana Guerrero (aka Anja)
El Lunes 23 Mayo 2005 16:31, Hanna M. Wallach escribió: > On Friday I met with two researchers working on "understanding gender > issues in open source" as part of the FLOSSpols project. One of the > (many) things we discussed was whether the women involved in free > software projects tend to read

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Javier Candeira
Well, I am more of a Lois McMaster Bujold type of person... -- j Ana Guerrero (aka Anja) wrote: El Lunes 23 Mayo 2005 16:31, Hanna M. Wallach escribió: On Friday I met with two researchers working on "understanding gender issues in open source" as part of the FLOSSpols project. One of the (ma

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Helen Faulkner
Hanna M. Wallach wrote: > On Friday I met with two researchers working on "understanding gender > issues in open source" as part of the FLOSSpols project. One of the > (many) things we discussed was whether the women involved in free > software projects tend to read as much science fiction as the >

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Cere Davis
I never read sci fi.. Don't like it much. I rarely even like fiction books. Watch Deep space 9 occasionally but I'm not much into alternate reality sci fi stuff much in general. I get into (enjoy) Open source stuff because it's an infinitely learnable landscape. thanks, -Cere On 5/23/05, H

Re: d-w wiki

2005-05-23 Thread Christine Spang
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 08:33 +0200, Meike Reichle wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a post to remind everyone of our lovely Debian Women wiki[1]! > It's been kind of deserted lately and I don't think it should be. > There are all kinds of handy things in there like our d-w Todo List[2], a > conferences

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Christine Spang
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 16:58 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > That got me thinking. Given that the fantasy genre is anything *but* > tech-oriented, it's a bit weird that it correlates with people who are. That is a good point. Hmm. Perhaps we all just have good, overactive imaginations - they both