Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Marga, On Donnerstag, 20. August 2009, Margarita Manterola wrote: > I'm thinking of organizing a local (i.e. in Argentina) Free Software > event, where all the speakers are women, and somehow try to advertise > this event so that it's clear that it's specially oriented towards > women, but obvi

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 20. August 2009, Margarita Manterola wrote: >> I'm thinking of organizing a local (i.e. in Argentina) Free Software >> event, where all the speakers are women, and somehow try to advertise >> this event so that it's clear that

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-24 Thread gaba
I went to a few women-only techie events and I really enjoyed them. I heard many more women talking and chatting that I usually do in any other techie conf and I think it also has to do with how men tend to take iniative more than women sometimes. When I was talking with Margarita (we met in Argen

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 24. August 2009, Margarita Manterola wrote: > It'd be a shame to go through the effort of gathering quite a number > of regional women for an event, and then make it so that only a group > of people (women) can attend. Poor men indeed! > One thing > is to try to show women that th

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-24 Thread Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermos
2009/8/24 Holger Levsen : > Why? It's not obvious to me. I think not having any men there would attract > some women who would otherwise not joiin. So... Could Caster Semenya go to the event or not? ;-) - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-08-24 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2009/8/24 Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermos : > 2009/8/24 Holger Levsen : >> Why? It's not obvious to me. I think not having any men there would attract >> some women who would otherwise not joiin. > > So... > > Could Caster Semenya go to the event or not? ;-) I think those kind of jokes are out of place her