Re: Women in FOSS at OSWC II

2006-02-26 Thread Pia Waugh
Hey Erinn and all, > The thing I'm not clear on, which I think Pia could probably elaborate > on, is: what level of silence is appropriate? Screaming from the > rooftops about the evils of men is certainly unproductive, but I am > concerned that pretending nothing is wrong is going to mislead pe

Re: Hello and introduction

2006-02-26 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi all, > Older members could also send mini bios, by the way.Who begins? :-) I'm Pia Waugh, Debian was my first distro and even after trying a few other distros I have always stuck with Debian and Debian derivatives, both for the technical superiority and choice, as well as for the philoso

Re: Women in FOSS at OSWC II

2006-02-26 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi Helen, > In case anyone else is wondering (it is a fairly colloquial phrase), to "tell > off the crowd for locking women out" means to "criticise the crowd for > excluding > women from their activities". > > to tell someone off means to criticise or verbally punish them (eg "I told my > son

Male teaching methods? - was: Re: Women in FOSS at OSWC II

2006-02-26 Thread Almut Behrens
Hi all, (guess I haven't posted here for ages...) On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:06:47PM +1100, Pia Waugh wrote: > > (snipped lots of good stuff) > > ... In that case, it turned out that his teaching methods were a > very male way of learning, and so the women had to go out on their > own a bit mor

Debian election on now

2006-02-26 Thread Helen Faulkner
Hi everyone, Sorry to those who already know all about this. I reckon there are a few of you who aren't on many or any other Debian mailing lists, so this is maybe news for some. The election for this year's Debian Project Leader [1] is in progress at the moment. There are 7 nominations, and

Re: Male teaching methods? - was: Re: Women in FOSS at OSWC II

2006-02-26 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi Almut, > Eventually, I figured they equated "male" with "technical", or, maybe > more precisely, "analytic" (in the sense of taking things apart to > study how their constituents work, or why they don't...). Don't make that assumption too readily :) I don't think it is the content, but r

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