RE: [issues] Skud's new article on geek chicks..

2000-02-07 Thread x
On 7 Feb 2000, srl wrote: > Haven't seen anything specific, but it would be a close correlation to the > studies about women's academic achievement in single-sex colleges. (has > anyone done studies on men in single-sex colleges?) > > I haven't heard college specific but I have read about the s

[issues] Re: [grrltalk] yet another intro...

2000-02-07 Thread Deb Richardson
Just so all the new folks know...introductions should only be posted to grrltalk. I get to crosspost stuff 'cuz I run the place ;) Thanks! - deb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [issues] Gender balance in Skud's class--and a too-short intro

2000-02-07 Thread Terri Oda
>Is it possible that word has simply gotten out that the class is being >taught by a woman, and you've released a pent-up demand amongst women >who are more comfortable being taught this tech by a woman? Actually, I've noticed in a lot of instances where I'm at a tech conference or doing a tech p

[issues] yet another intro...

2000-02-07 Thread Helaine McFerron
hello all: sorry for the cross posting... nickname: HB gender: female school page: www.cs.depaul.edu email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] location: Chicago, IL I happened to be in NYC visiting a friend during the Linuxworldexpo so I stopped in on Friday. Walking around I saw the linuxchix.org booth and I

[issues] Hello

2000-02-07 Thread Shad Young
Hello all, I have recently been made aware of the existence of this list. I am an active member of OCLUG (Ottawa Carleton Linux Users Group) and an avid Linux enthusiast. I support truth and equality in everything I do. I will likely lurk here in Grrltalk, Techtalk and Issues for a while to le

Re: [issues] Gender balance in Skud's class--and a too-short intro

2000-02-07 Thread Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Margaret Leber wrote: >> Any guesses as to what's going on? >> (I have my own theories, but will save them until I've heard some other >> opinions) > >Is it possible that word has simply gotten out that the class is being >taught by a woman, and you've released a pe

Re: [issues] Skud's new article on geek chicks..

2000-02-07 Thread Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
Bad Mojo wrote: >On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Telsa Gwynne wrote: >> > Maybe we should stop asking `Where are the female geeks?' Is it too early >> > in the new Open Source/Linux/whatever movement to be taking a tally and >> > trying to fix something that might be slowly fixing itself allready? I >> >> Ah

[issues] Happy Birthday LinuxChix

2000-02-07 Thread Deb Richardson
Sorry for the cross-post, but... I want everyone to know that today (Feb 7, 2000) is LinuxChix' first anniversary. On a blustery Sunday morning a year ago, I came up with the idea, the name, and the original website for this little project. I registered the domain name, set up the mailing list

Re: [issues] Skud's new article on geek chicks..

2000-02-07 Thread Bad Mojo
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > > Maybe we should stop asking `Where are the female geeks?' Is it too early > > in the new Open Source/Linux/whatever movement to be taking a tally and > > trying to fix something that might be slowly fixing itself allready? I > > Ah, but is it fixing its

[issues] Gender balance in Skud's class--and a too-short intro

2000-02-07 Thread Margaret Leber
Skud wrote about suddenly realizing that the tech class she teaches is suddenly about half women... > Any guesses as to what's going on? > (I have my own theories, but will save them until I've heard some other > opinions) Skud-- (nice to see you again BTW--long time since we talked through/a

Re: [issues] Skud's new article on geek chicks..

2000-02-07 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 07:46:43AM -0500 or thereabouts, Bad Mojo wrote: > On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, curious wrote: > > http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/02/05/949813140.html > > Wow, I couldn't seem to get away from this article all weekend. Every > place I went had a link to it. Not that I was avoiding

Re: [issues] Skud's new article on geek chicks..

2000-02-07 Thread Bad Mojo
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, curious wrote: > http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/02/05/949813140.html Wow, I couldn't seem to get away from this article all weekend. Every place I went had a link to it. Not that I was avoiding it but I finally found some time to read it. And I have one question. In the third

Re: [issues] Skud's new article on geek chicks..

2000-02-07 Thread srl
On 7 Feb 2000, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote: > I wonder if anyone's done any solid research on productivity, > creativity, etc in mixed vs single sex workplaces? > > I seem to recall seeing something like that in either _Peopleware_ > (DeMarco and Lister) or _The Death March_ (Yourdon), but it wa

Re: [issues] Skud's new article on geek chicks..

2000-02-07 Thread Laurel Fan
Hm, actually, I haven't noticed a great deal of the negative behavior in the article in the "open source community". Lately, I've realized that this is probably because the only open source project I've considered myself a part of is worldforge, which seems to be unique in that we can answer mos