Excerpts from linuxchix: 12-Apr-101 Re: [issues] Women and financeTerri
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> No, I seem to recall that bio and enviro engineering were the highest. It's
> been a while since I saw any stats.
If you're looking for numbers of women in various majors, the Digest
of Educat
I'm doing a project for my class, Women in American History, about
women in the sciences. Mostly we're studying how and why women get
into the sciences (which we define as any sort of technical-y field,
including pure sciences, engineering, computer science, IT...). As
well as reading the litera
Excerpts from linuxchix: 21-Mar-101 Re: [issues] Conversation m.. by
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> I've a tendancy to not-answer unless I am absolutely certain I
> know the answer, or there's not been an answer for 12 hours or so.
>
> Can anyone explain to me why I do that?
Maybe because if there's a r
Excerpts from linuxchix: 17-Jan-101 Re: [issues] Re: Filtering .. by Jen
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> There's no reason to argue N2H2's effectiveness or in-effectiveness in
> this newsgroup. The issue is censorship, not N2H2.
On the contrary. The issue is Internet filtering. This issue
includes several
Excerpts from linuxchix: 17-Jan-101 Re: [issues] Re: Filtering .. by Jen
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> Yes, I believe you have made incorrect statements about N2H2 and are
> misunderstanding N2H2's philosophy altogether. The company's web page
> describes in detail how the product works and why.
Not that
Excerpts from linuxchix: 20-Feb-100 Re: [issues] YAFGA (Yet Ano.. by
Kirrily '. Robert@netize
> Has anyone else experienced this? Any advice?
Talk about free software? Recently, I seem to be getting a lot of
isn't-free-software-communism comments from MBA-types who know nothing
about it (or co
Excerpts from linuxchix: 17-Feb-100 Re: [issues] YAFGA (Yet Ano.. by
Laurel D Margulis@andrew
> You're kidding. Most men I've met (at CMU that is) love women who, in
> general, understand men, who are comfortable around them, and who are
> intelligent. I'm surprised you ahve troulbe finding a dat
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Feb-100 Re: [issues] YAFGA (Yet Ano.. by
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> What I'm afraid of is that kids today are learning mostly user skills---
> they don't seem to be learning programming as much at young ages as i did.
> they're learning to operate windoze. Getting girls to us
On Wired this time.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34175,00.html?tw=wn2215
Nothing really new here. This one's more about the "industry". More
and more, I've been thinking about how different the computer industry
(Silicon Valley, Microsoft, .com, venture capital, IT, IPOs, etc.
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
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Jan-100 Re: [issues] Re: Demographi.. by
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> If you can't tell I am *still* steamed about this -- especially since I
> figure eigth grade girls and boys are *still* faced with that same
> ridiculous and sexist choice. It was required to take one or the
For those of you who don't read slashdot:
There's an interesting article entitled "Gender in the Internet Age" at:
http://www.cpsr.org/publications/newsletters/issues/2000/Winter2000/
and the ensuing slashdot discussion is at:
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/07/0920224.shtml
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In a slashdot article
http://slashdot.org/features/99/12/21/112253.shtml
describing the Bazaar, the free software convention last week, 2 of the
6 reader contributors appear to be female.
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In a slashdot article
http://slashdot.org/features/99/12/21/112253.shtml
describing the Bazaar, the free software convention last week, 2 of the
6 reader contributors appear to be female.
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 18-Dec-99 [issues] Patents (was: RMS .. by
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> tell me, if you were a struggling college student who is developing an
> original data structure that has a chance to be in demand what can you do
> to proffit from your idea other than to patent it?
The same
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Dec-99 [issues] Re: linux and the .. by
"Natalie C. Heinen"@loui
> Several times, many things have been mentioned about the lack of games in
> the linux world, which leads to less appeal of
Excerpts from linuxchix: 7-Dec-99 [issues] Pet peeve by Terri
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> How come DVD (and other cool electronics ads) are so heavily aimed at men?
Radio Shack has an ad where a woman asks a man (presumably a
husband/boyfriend) for slectronics-type stuff...
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 7-Dec-99 Re: [issues] Prototype vs. .. by
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> I'm a graduate of the first type (Smith)... could you elaborate more on
> what an EECS-focused program looks like?
CMU has both ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering), part of
engineering, and CS (Computer
Excerpts from linuxchix: 1-Dec-99 Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier (.. by
Maureen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Laurel:
> Laurel Fan wrote:
> > Excerpts from linuxchix: 1-Dec-99 Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier (.. by
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> > > What do you think?
> >
> &g
Excerpts from linuxchix: 1-Dec-99 Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier (.. by
Robert Kiesling@localhos
> I would like software that allows and facilitates collaborative or
> simultaneous projects over the net. CVS kind of does this, at least
> in the communication part, letting everyone know that a module
Excerpts from linuxchix: 1-Dec-99 Re: [issues] linux women - .. by
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> Ok, but why are all the women not contributing?
Many are. It's just that like thousands of men and women, they aren't
high profile, so you don't know of them.
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Excerpts from linuxchix: 1-Dec-99 Re: [issues] Jamie Lokier (.. by
Maureen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I think this is becoming more manageable now, and if there's
> interest and we can come together on some projects, perhaps
> we can all move ahead in a supportive, non-judgemental environment
> that is
Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Nov-99 Re: [issues] Linux Mag: 50 .. by
Maureen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The problem here is that there are no high-profile open source
> software products developed primarily by women.
> I do not know why this is, but it is a large part of the problem IMHO.
Why is this a
Excerpts from linuxchix: 9-Nov-99 [issues] this message seems.. by
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> Alright since I'm probably one of those people who should have read the
> (yet non-existant) FAQ...
You haven't read http://www.linuxchix.org/docs/faq.html ?
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Hm.. i took it twice and got inconclusive on both of them. I noticed
that I kept on putting "her" and "history" on the male side, so maybe it
was getting mad at me for hitting buttons before I read the whole thing
:)
It might be interesting to see if there are any associations with the
individu
Excerpts from linuxchix: 21-Oct-99 Why I Find Those Screenshot.. by Neil
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> users. i've never actually looked at themes.org, except for the few urls
> posted to this list, but i believe the purpose of the site (or the
> screenshots area of the site, if there's more to the sit
Hm. I haven't really noticed this, but it might just be because I don't
look for themes, and don't often view screenshots. So I decided to do a
little unscientific experiment.
I took a look at some of the screenshots in e.themes.org. I chose E
because it's probably the most excessively graphic
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Oct-99 Re: [issues] Good and bad r.. by
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> Also, is anyone participating in an open source project right
> now that they feel is really well-managed and organized? (So we
> can look at it as an example?)
Yep. www.worldforge.org
> Just for fun, I th
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