Re: Introducing Myself

2007-12-02 Thread Lesley Binks
Ricardo Mones wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:46:39 + Karena Stannett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and my educational establishment stops expecting presentations and docs in you know whose's office suite formats) The best way to stop such expectations is to stop giving them such formats. I

Re: Learning now coding in Perl :-)

2008-05-26 Thread Lesley Binks
2008/5/27 Carmen Marcela Alegria C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > http://www.unix.com.ua/orelly/perl3/index.htm > > > --- Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > >> Hi Girls, >> >> I am coding in ASM, C, PHP, COBOL, PASCAL, CP/M, >> FORTRAN and SH >> and now I am ongoing to learn Perl... :-

Re: new member presentation

2008-11-03 Thread Lesley Binks
2008/11/3 Anne Ghisla Insubriae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi all! > > after reading Linda's presentation and the following thread, I agree with > you about keeping this list alive. > My Linux story started three years ago at university thanks to a friend, > Clara, who installed Debian on my laptop. Th

Re: Why the Widening Gender Gap in Computer Science?

2008-11-22 Thread Lesley Binks
2008/11/21 sjb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > CS is a pretty damned broad definition (PDBD). > > Overall, there may be few women studying in the discipline, and it's natural > to ask why, but nobody seems (unless there's an article I missed) to be > asking about women's involvement in specific streams/ maj

Re: Why the Widening Gender Gap in Computer Science?

2008-11-24 Thread Lesley Binks
2008/11/24 Brenda Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Lesley Binks > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Society itself demands that men earn more than women and that women >> shouldn't have high responsibility high earning positions in ord

Re: Why the Widening Gender Gap in Computer Science?

2008-11-24 Thread Lesley Binks
2008/11/24 Brenda Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Lesley Binks > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> or ... that task goes to the father... (why is that option missing? >>> it's far far more common than nannies, at least in my &

Re: Why the Widening Gender Gap in Computer Science?

2008-11-25 Thread Lesley Binks
2008/11/25 Monique Y. Mudama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2008-11-25, Meike Reichle penned: >> Usually the interview will go somewhere along the lines that at some >> point the talk turns to your kids and whatever cleverly composed >> combination of day nursery, part time working husband, kindergarten

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-29 Thread Lesley Binks
2008/12/29 Kevin Mark : > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:18:00AM +1300, Brenda Wallace wrote: >> >> i'm shocked by how much sexist crap is posted to the debian-women >> mailing list lately. > > Yes. > >> it's a magnet for folks who think women shouldn't be here. ... and >> Miry almost on her own replyi

Re: a new, very small, debian girl!

2009-05-06 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/5/6 Helen Faulkner : > > Our daughter Clara was born on 25th April :) > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiperactivo/collections/72157617646976748/ > Congratulations Helen and Javier and hello little Clara. Glad to see you are all safe and well. Regards Lesley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: moving the wiki content?

2009-07-08 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/7/8 Meike Reichle : > Hi Lisi > >> In view of the recent thread, I think that now is a bad time, from my point >> of >> view, to take away anything from the women's space.  We are, after all, >> hardly made to feel welcome on the official site. > > I respectfully disagree, on certain points a

Re: moving the wiki content?

2009-07-09 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/7/9 Steve Langasek : > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:52:34PM +0100, Lesley Binks wrote: > >> I think I am happier if we have our own 'quarter' where we can make it >> absolutely clear >> certain topics stuff are not welcome, nor tolerated and at least have >

Re: Introduction and Debian Women Mentoring Programme

2009-07-28 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/7/28 Rosellyne Thompson : > Hi everyone, > > My name is Rosellyne Thompson and I am 23 years old. I've been using > Debian since 2000 (Potato!) and I've decided to delurk and become more > involved with the Debian project, primarily to give something back and > become part of the community, bu

Re: Introduction and Debian Women Mentoring Programme

2009-07-28 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/7/28 Lesley Binks : > 2009/7/28 Rosellyne Thompson : >> Hi everyone, >> >> My name is Rosellyne Thompson and I am 23 years old. I've been using >> Debian since 2000 (Potato!) and I've decided to delurk and become more >> involved with the Debian pr

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-09-03 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/8/28 toya : > agnez wrote: >> Alice Ferrazzi wrote: >>> i agree with Miriam >>> is not a joke ! >>> maybe he thought that it was only a stupid joke but it wasn't >>> it's sexism and a really bad one, against a young middle-distance runner and >>> also against all women >>> >>> [snip] >> you ha

Re: DW Mailing List: Would it be better if it was not archived?

2009-09-16 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/9/15 Jenna Gretsch : > I too am a lurker on this list, but I second Brenda's post. > > Brenda Wallace wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: >>> >>> 2009/9/15 Ursula Junque : On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: I wonder why would this

Re: DW Mailing List: Would it be better if it was not archived?

2009-09-17 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/9/17 Helen Faulkner : > Hi all, > > Miriam Ruiz wrote: >> One of the reasons -among others- that new women don't write in the >> mailing list might be that the messages are being publicly archived >> and exposed forever, and that could be quite intimidating. Do you >> think it might help if th

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/9/23 Runa Sandvik : > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Erinn Clark wrote: >> Hey everyone, > > Hey :) > >> - Someone to help me run it. If you have better ideas about how to run >>  it, I am listening. I think sometimes new people are afraid to step in >>  and try to take over things, but you

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/9/23 Erinn Clark : > * Runa Sandvik [2009:09:23 19:49 +0200]: >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Erinn Clark wrote: >> > Hey everyone, >> >> Hey :) >> >> > - Someone to help me run it. If you have better ideas about how to run >> >  it, I am listening. I think sometimes new people are afrai

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-25 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/9/23 Runa Sandvik : > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Lesley Binks > wrote: >> No disrespect - probably okay between two people but tricky when the >> work is more distributed. >> Ideal db thing perhaps?  I could run something up on postgresql or >> MySQL an

Re: shebuntu debian project

2009-09-29 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/9/29 Harry Rickards : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 29/09/09 16:25, Ivan Serra wrote: >> Hi Ana >> thanks for your message >> I respect your opinion my apologies for my email I thought it was a good >> idea >> Regards >> Ivan >> >> Ana Guerrero ha scritto: >>> On Tue

Re: shebuntu debian project

2009-09-30 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/9/30 Rayna : > Hi all, > > I'm new to Debian-women, that's my first posting on the list ;o) > > I agree with plenty of the remarks made here (Eric's, Miriam's ones and so > on). I'd like to addsome critics in a constructive fashion. I find a > woman-focused distribution a bad idea... In other

Re: Are there some of you in Munich and Germany ?

2009-10-02 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/10/2 Kevin Mark : > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:11:40PM +0200, Rayna wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I'm living in Munich now and am searching for LUGs and especially women >> groups >> here (or in Germany in general). Except Ubuntu-users.de in Munich and a LUG >> defined as "a regular meeting of old

Merits of a meritocracy

2009-11-30 Thread Lesley Binks
Hi http://geekfeminism.org/2009/11/29/questioning-the-merit-of-meritocracy/ seems a good read Regards Lesley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: current status and HOWTO help with the women.d.o website

2010-04-13 Thread Lesley Binks
On 31 March 2010 20:15, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 07:52:17AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Ana Guerrero wrote: >> >> > the wiki >> > - >> > The Debian Women wiki has been removed, it was not widely used but it >> > contained >> >

Re: d-w wiki page

2010-08-24 Thread Lesley Binks
the Teams page? It would help raise the profile of the group and its wiki presence amongst project peers. But then we'd have to decide where DebianWomen fits in - Development or Core and Infrastructure? -- Kind Regards Lesley Binks -- 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/aanlktinny7gkfr=tc_hddwe5eooaa05egtbn415xz...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Trying to get conclusions from Debian Women Statistics

2010-08-25 Thread Lesley Binks
ct gets those that are prepared to make a committment. It might be far worse for Debian to encourage the churn rate to affect the DD stats. -- Kind Regards Lesley Binks -- 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/aanlktimhfvw4tpd_mwc6bbpodtc708=ojlo1_t7jc...@mail.gmail.com

Re: resource availability and (naive) ideas

2010-08-25 Thread Lesley Binks
in on this one so I'll leave that to them :) > > More generally, please keep in mind that for me the kind of activities > pushed by d-w are activities it is worth give resources to, so just be > creative and let me know how I can help you with Debian resources! > > You don&#x

Re: resource availability and (naive) ideas

2010-08-25 Thread Lesley Binks
On 26 August 2010 07:49, Lesley Binks wrote: > On 25 August 2010 18:15, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> [ please Cc:-me if you reply only to -women, as I'm not subscribed ] >> > You don't state what way you would be prepared to help nor  your > involvement with the D

Re: resource availability and (naive) ideas

2010-08-26 Thread Lesley Binks
On 26 August 2010 08:52, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Thursday, August 26, 2010 02:49:31 am Lesley Binks wrote: >> Well the only thing I heard of recently in u-w was having your picture >> taken to win prizes.  I am not against people having their picture taken >> but was i

Re: proposal social networking link icon in the site and feed aggregation

2010-08-29 Thread Lesley Binks
ks. I can imagine having to send the same thing out to some number of social networking sites could be quite tedious. Kind Regards Lesley Binks -- 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/aanlktink8zjddoc+rkb0afq0gvzcoqvx-1ywuq0f2...@mail.gmail.com

Re: proposal social networking link icon in the site and feed aggregation

2010-08-29 Thread Lesley Binks
On 29 August 2010 18:35, Lesley Binks wrote: > On 29 August 2010 18:17, Miriam Ruiz wrote: >> 2010/8/26 Alice Ferrazzi : >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 08/26/2010 09:05 AM, Maia Kozheva wrote: >>>> I

Re: IRC Training Sessions

2010-08-29 Thread Lesley Binks
> be willing to go first? > > [1]: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/TrainingSessions > > -- > Besos, > Marga Hi Marga Just did a typo-fix and also guessed BTS meant Bug Tracking System? Hope it's ok. Looks like the list will be keeping us busy for a while. --

Re: Minutes from the IRC meeting today

2010-08-29 Thread Lesley Binks
> > I'm happy to provide more detail, even excruciating detail, if people > want it. As I said in the meeting, I'm available to help but I don't have DM/DD status. -- Kind Regards Lesley Binks -- 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/aanlkti=fhv_snl-_m3gjsdnohcqgj1xxru8oqyhld...@mail.gmail.com

Re: [proposal] IRC Meeting

2010-08-31 Thread Lesley Binks
. > >> These are the point I think we can discuss. So, if you're ok with the meeting >> we can decide the date ;) > > A new IRC meeting is OK for me :) > +1 Do we have a date and time yet? -- Kind Regards Lesley Binks -- 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/aanlktinotdj-h5s=wcjdhy7te-bmjbr0oq2epcvs1...@mail.gmail.com

Re: [proposal] IRC Meeting

2010-09-01 Thread Lesley Binks
On 1 September 2010 11:07, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > Hi all! > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:52:42AM +0200, Anne Ghisla wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:31 +0100, Lesley Binks wrote: >> > On 30 August 2010 23:54, Miriam Ruiz wrote: >> > > 2010/8/30 Fr

Re: [proposal] IRC Meeting

2010-09-03 Thread Lesley Binks
how it runs, discussion on proposals from list (blogroll, > news, identi.ca account, etc) > > Hi Francesca Can we add in a time check based on the world clock meeting planner ? Or at least have an Any other business slot to add that into? Thanks :) -- Kind Regards Lesley Binks -- To

Re: [proposal] IRC Meeting

2010-09-03 Thread Lesley Binks
he time differences between UTC and Perth (Australia), San Diego (West Coast, USA) and New Delhi (india) So 2200 UTC is 6 am the next day in Perth, 3am the next day in New Delhi and 3pm the same day in San Diego. I would suggest that 1300 or 1400 UTC actually look like reasonable times over that sprea

Re: [proposal] IRC Meeting

2010-09-03 Thread Lesley Binks
On 3 September 2010 17:24, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Lesley Binks > wrote: >> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?day=3&month=9&year=2010&p1=0&p2=196&p3=176&p4=770 >> >> shows

FSF Europe Survey on Interplay between Intellectual Property Rights and Standards.

2010-09-09 Thread Lesley Binks
d the corporate and/or IPR generating end so if you have reached or resolved a conflict between IPR and standards at some point in a corporate career you might want to look at this. The survey is supposed to take about 20 minutes (!) -- Kind Regards Lesley Binks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: presentation & wanting to contribute

2010-09-30 Thread Lesley Binks
different packaging teams so you can see what types of wider projects there are out there. > > I hope I can contribute and help! > > Cheers > > PS: I know my English is not the best, I'm trying to improve it ;-) Your English is streets ahead of my Spanish/Portugese (?) > &

Re: feedback about IRC sessions

2011-03-11 Thread Lesley Binks
ery two weeks, we will have 50 of them for Wheezy. > > I hope there will be DWTS in the near futur even ever after, and beyond > > Cheers > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscr

Okay so we want ....

2011-04-21 Thread Lesley Binks
e environment. Inculcating in ourselves the ability to stand up for ourselves and assert our viewpoint within or with reference to our own domain without feeling we have to apologise for doing so? -- Kind Regards Lesley Binks A: because it disrupts the normal flow of conversation. Q: why is t

Re: Okay so we want ....

2011-04-22 Thread Lesley Binks
On 22 April 2011 09:30, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 03:52:10AM +0100, Lesley Binks wrote: > >>  diaspora? (has anyone got an account on that yet?) >> I can probably have a bit of fun working on these :) > > Hi, > If you or anyone wants a Disapora inv

Re: Questions and comments regarding Debian Women

2011-04-22 Thread Lesley Binks
r woman to suffer them completely borking it, or misunderstanding the aim of the project or being so pleased they have got something working that was in fact already working. Let's say chivalry has its place - on both sides of the gender equation ! -- Kind Regards Lesley Binks A: because i

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

2011-04-28 Thread Lesley Binks
!) can get the kudos of having built a website for part of the Debian project? -- Kind Regards Lesley Binks A: because it disrupts the normal flow of conversation. Q: why is top-posting so annoying? A: top-post reply. Q: what's the most annoying thing you can do in email? -- To UNSUBSC

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

2011-04-28 Thread Lesley Binks
On 29 April 2011 01:44, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Thu Apr 28, 2011 at 19:02:16 +0100, Lesley Binks wrote: > >> However, as one of the many females in the group who has the skill required >> to build a site from scratch and the skill to figure out what I need >> to know to

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

2011-04-29 Thread Lesley Binks
On 29 April 2011 05:59, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Lesley Binks (lesley.bi...@googlemail.com): > >> promotion of women within the Debian community having its >> website built by a bloke.  No disrespect intended to any man with >                     ^ > >

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

2011-04-29 Thread Lesley Binks
On 29 April 2011 12:07, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Fri Apr 29, 2011 at 03:48:32 +0100, Lesley Binks wrote: > >> > ?? ??* Over the past few months things have stagnated. > >> Well, I would disagree. The d-w mentoring scheme has >> assigned about 12 people (male and femal

Re: Building packages from source tutorial - announcement RFC

2011-04-29 Thread Lesley Binks
> in portuguese. What do you think about that? > > Just a small comment about the message, if there is still time for that... >> >> Are you enthusiastic about Debian and thinking about contributing? We >> want to teach you the basics. >> > What about substituting

Re: Debian Women T-Shirt !

2011-05-26 Thread Lesley Binks
bs). > Yep, that too :) My ribcage is 36" but the rest of me doesn't realistically correlate to a UK size 14-16. This site may be promising for non-geek-wear(!): http://www.bravissimo.com/pepperberry/sizeguide/ I prefer my T-shirts baggy and long and not shrinking in the wash. --

Re: Debian Women T-Shirt !

2011-05-26 Thread Lesley Binks
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:57:25AM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Runa A. Sandvik > wrote: > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Angela Kahealani > > wrote: > >> alice ferrazzi wrote: > >> > >>> Debconf 2011 is approaching... > >>> > >>> What's about the Debian

Re: Debian Women T-Shirt !

2011-05-26 Thread Lesley Binks
aking some men's shirts for > sizes larger than women's XL. > > OPen Source Initiative did some singlets (wider strap than a camisole) in > women's sizes that were very popular at summer events, but there were many > larger women who ended up with men's shir

Re: Finding a mentor

2012-04-08 Thread Lesley Binks
Hi Maria, Francesca and everyone else On 5 April 2012 20:35, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > Hi María, > > welcome! > > AFAIK the Mentor Program is still running: Lisley and Helen can you > confirm? > > Yes it is, I wasn't too well for a while and then things have gone a bit mad in real life so my ap

Re: Finding a mentor

2012-04-09 Thread lesley . binks
Hi Maria, Francesca and everyone else, On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 09:35:45PM +0200, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > Hi María, > > welcome! > > AFAIK the Mentor Program is still running: Lisley and Helen can you > confirm? > Yes it is, I wasn't too well for a while and then things have gone a bit mad i

Re: women.debian.org ??? www.debian.org/women migration ready!

2012-10-30 Thread Lesley Binks
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 04:27:54PM +0200, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > Hi all, > > > * the mentoring program page [2] lists several persons as > potential mentors and gives some info for mentees. @ Helen and > Lisley (who, afaik, are in charge for the mentoring program): >