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

2006-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 06:16:54PM +1100, Pia Waugh wrote: > > When thinking about it, I guess it's this aspect in which I'm most > > different from "typical" (non-technical) women ("typical" in the > > statistical status quo sense - not saying there's some biological > > predetermination in effect

Re: Debian election on now

2006-02-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.27.0156 +0100]: > I think it would be great to get more women involved in the > discussion and debate surrounding the DPL elections, so please, > let us know your views and your wishes for Debian's future! ... even though the number of women

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

2006-02-27 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi Steve, > So what word would you use instead of "typical"? I don't think it helps > address problems of equality to stigmatize the vocabulary needed to > describe statistical realities, either. What? I wasn't stigmatising anything. I wasn't saying typical or atypical is good or bad, I was su

Re: Hello and introduction

2006-02-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060225 07:13]: > Older members could also send mini bios, by the way.Who begins? :-) Uhm... perhaps me? Since I have never send a bio but was lurking arround for quite some time, you could say, that it's my turn ;) Hi! My name is Alexander Sch

Re: Hello and introduction

2006-02-27 Thread Vedran Vucic
Hello, My name is Vedran Vucic and I am involved in various civic movements in the last 16 years or so. I also compose music for theatre and work with free software in the last 10 years. I am on debain-women list because I think that technology is not primarily male thing. I think that noo

Updating profiles

2006-02-27 Thread Christine Spang
* Vedran Vucic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:02:27 16:30 +0100]: > > Hello, > > > My name is Vedran Vucic and I am involved in various civic movements in the > last 16 years or so. I also compose music for theatre and work with free > software in the last 10 years. I am on debain-women list beca

Re: Hello and introduction

2006-02-27 Thread Camilla Berglund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erinn Clark wrote: > I like seeing these little bios from new members. :) Hmm, okay then. I'm elmindreda, although people in the real world insist on calling me Camilla. I'm an ex game developer who has slowly but surely fallen for the Unix way, fina

Re: Hello and introduction

2006-02-27 Thread Erinn Clark
* Camilla Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:02:28 03:37 +0100]: > I'm elmindreda, although people in the real world insist on calling me > Camilla. I'm an ex game developer who has slowly but surely fallen for > the Unix way, finally ending up on a Debian desktop. w00t! Game developers! I am sor

Re: Hello and introduction

2006-02-27 Thread Erinn Clark
* linuxgirlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:02:25 21:45 +]: > Haven't been a member for long but here goes... > > Hi, I am Jo, on the net I am 'known' as linuxgirlie. Hello and welcome. :) > I am from the UK and am a sys-admin in a secondary school, I am the > co-founder of Karoshi (www.karos

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

2006-02-27 Thread Erinn Clark
* Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:02:26 16:49 +0100]: > Hi all, (guess I haven't posted here for ages...) Indeed, but it's good to see you posting again... :) > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:06:47PM +1100, Pia Waugh wrote: > > > > (snipped lots of good stuff) > > > > ... In that case, it

Re: Hello and introduction

2006-02-27 Thread Christian Perrier
> I found DW via the DebConf5 recordings, and I'm very glad I did, as it's > proven to be a wonderful gateway into Debian. I usually tend to avoid > female-dominated environments, as I lack the social wiring required to > make sense of most of them, but DW is a nice exception. Well, about that pa