Re: [issues] linux women - the revenge? :-)

1999-11-30 Thread Ingrid Schupbach
You've got some men in here - sorry... > Jamie Lokier (UK) All of the Brits named Jamie I've ever met have been men > Kai Harrekilde-Petersen (Norway) > Kai Makisara (Finland) As some one else mentioned earlier, Kai is usually a boy's name > Cunningham, Alistair Definitely a man. > Schmidt, N

Re: [issues] linux women - the revenge? :-)

1999-11-30 Thread Renie
> Next, I've looked in the list of debian developers... here's what I found: > > Barsky, Dima > Schmidt, Nikita > > (apart from the oriental names which could be anything). > There are a Susan, a Sue, an Ashley, a Nikita which are quite interesting. > Anyone can purge some names here? :-) > >

Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier (was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-11-30 Thread franzoni
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, ae wrote: > First off - Jamie Lokier is male, and a very good friend of mine. :) Ok, I'll take him off the list. I was sure many of them were male :-)) > I'm a developer - C/C++ *nix - use KDE on Mandrake 6.1, with gvim as > editor and mozilla when I can get it to stay up,

Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier (was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-11-30 Thread jenn
ae wrote: > Is that an explanation of why though there are tons of us female coders > who use open source software, and love the idea, we don't contribute to > the projects? For what it's worth, those reasons apply to me. I'm /told/ I'm one of the best programmers they know, by people who see my

[issues] linux women - the revenge? :-)

1999-11-30 Thread franzoni
So as for kernel developers we're down to Jamie Lokier (UK) Pat Mackinlay (Australia) Pauline Middelink (Netherlands) Arindam Banerji (USA) Chih-Jen Chang (China) Niibe Yutaka (Japan) H.J. Lu (USA, probably) Kai Harrekilde-Petersen (Norway) Kai Makisara (Finland) (I'll look in the web if I can f

[issues] Jamie Lokier (was Re: 50 people to watch)

1999-11-30 Thread ae
Hiya. First off - Jamie Lokier is male, and a very good friend of mine. :) I'm a developer - C/C++ *nix - use KDE on Mandrake 6.1, with gvim as editor and mozilla when I can get it to stay up, have friends, inc ESR, in the open source movement and yet have never contributed to an open source pro

Re: [issues] Linux Mag: 50 Linux People to Watch

1999-11-30 Thread franzoni
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jillian-Beth Stamos-Kaschke wrote: > Don't know about the Scandinavians, but in Germany, people called Kai > are most definitely male. So is Heiko Essfeldt. And my Finnish is > well, let's just be polite and call it extremely rudimentary, but I think > Matti is a guy's n

Re: [issues] Linux Mag: 50 Linux People to Watch

1999-11-30 Thread franzoni
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Robert Kiesling wrote: > > Well, documentation is a very big issue, and I think people working in > > that field _do_ aid free software. Even Stallman said that ;-) > > But that doesn't help in your quest Andries Brouwer, > Matt Welsh, ESR... a few others... all of us m

Re: [issues] Linux Mag: 50 Linux People to Watch

1999-11-30 Thread Marie Fischer
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jillian-Beth Stamos-Kaschke wrote: > > As for kernel developers, scrolling the CREDITS file I got some possible > > "she"s: > > > > Kai Harrekilde-Petersen (Norway) > > Kai Makisara (Finland) > > Kai Petzke (Germany) > > > Don't know about the Scandinavians, but in Germany,

Re: [issues] Re: meta-stuff

1999-11-30 Thread Marie Fischer
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Janus wrote: > At 09:50 PM 11/29/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >This in mind, I think that it might be time to change the reply-to > >address from "list" to "sender". > I would worry a bit about losing information -- since the human tendency > seems to be to hit reply without che

Re: [issues] Linux Mag: 50 Linux People to Watch

1999-11-30 Thread Sunnanvind
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, srl skrivde: > Which begs a question: why is it such an offense to refer to a male with > feminine pronouns, or vice versa? It is? That's odd? Sunnan -- http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind Hjärtan och blomster etc etc [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [issues] Linux Mag: 50 Linux People to Watch

1999-11-30 Thread Sunnanvind
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrivde: > Anyone can check off any male name? Kai's and Matti's might be male. All of these names can easily be males, like Jamie and Pat. Pauline is the most un-male name. Sunnan. -- http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind Hjärtan och blomster etc etc

Re: [issues] Re: meta-stuff

1999-11-30 Thread Janus
At 09:50 PM 11/29/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >This in mind, I think that it might be time to change the reply-to >address from "list" to "sender". What this means is, unless you >specifically reply to the list (by selecting the appropriate option, or >by specifying the list address), your response

Re: [issues] Linux Mag: 50 Linux People to Watch

1999-11-30 Thread Jillian-Beth Stamos-Kaschke
Hi Eugenia, > As for kernel developers, scrolling the CREDITS file I got some possible > "she"s: > > Kai Harrekilde-Petersen (Norway) > Kai Makisara (Finland) > Kai Petzke (Germany) > > some I really don't know > > Matti Aarnio (Finland) > Heiko Eissfeldt (Germany) Don't know about the Scandi

Re: [issues] Linux Mag: 50 Linux People to Watch

1999-11-30 Thread Robert Kiesling
> Well, documentation is a very big issue, and I think people working in > that field _do_ aid free software. Even Stallman said that ;-) But that doesn't help in your quest Andries Brouwer, Matt Welsh, ESR... a few others... all of us men. I don't know what criteria you would use, anyway

Re: [issues] Linux Mag: 50 Linux People to Watch

1999-11-30 Thread franzoni
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: > The sad thing is, the leaders of the Linux community think that 2% is a high > number, and reality is closer to 1%. That is the figure Bob Young used (99% male) > in his Linux Journal interview, and it is also the number Phil Hughes used in that >

Re: [issues] Linux Mag: 50 Linux People to Watch

1999-11-30 Thread franzoni
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Robert Kiesling wrote: > In all seriousness, what would the criteria be? You could include the > editor of Linux Journal, but they're competitors (is she related to > you?), or the people who've organized the greatly successful Linux > conferences, even though they also have

Re: [issues] Linux Mag: 50 Linux People to Watch

1999-11-30 Thread franzoni
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Robert Kiesling wrote: > Andrea as a male name is common in some countries. Italy is one > of them. Andrea's a bloke. You're not the first to make this mistake: > I think it's quite common. :) > > That's been pointed out to me already, but I somehow my reply