On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Dan McGarry wrote:
> to consider that their group is comprised mostly of middle class liberals
> with college degrees, living in a fairly small geographic range, globally
> speaking.
Ok, so I am in one of the minorities, being Italian :-)
> 1) Does high-tech always *req
On 19 Dec 1999, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote:
> >On the subject of editors: Marjorie Richardson is the editor of
> >Linux Journal, too.
>
> Cool, noted.
Some time ago we tried to find some linux-women, and some names came up...
well, no-one's sure if they really are women, but here they are:
Pa
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, TeknoDragon wrote:
> > copyright to patents (as is in the US). Well, patents are not a good
> > thing, you can tell from the amazon story (and the unisys/gif one, you
>
> not a good thing?
>
> tell me, if you were a struggling college student who is developing an
> original
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> Personally, I don't think it's worth it to boycott amazon... but rather
> to deal with the real problem, the patent organisation itself. Amazon is
> taking advantage of putting a patent on something they feel is original
> material (and no, it's not
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Ok, but why are all the women not contributing? Contributing is quite
> > easy, and mostly you don't even have to report to anyone.
>
> There's the big question: How?
> I know it has to be easy, straightforward, etc etc etc - but .. I haven't
> th
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> Well, as Laurel said, it's entirely possible they're there but
> less well-known. As an example, I was looking at the manual page
Yes, it is possible, but there aren't any (except three) who participate
in LUG attivity, nor attend meeting, and they're n
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote:
> I think that a women-led project is achieved only when women predominate the
> group. If you mean woman led, as in one woman, I don't think this is
> easily achievable in an open source venue.
Not easily because, luckily, most open source projects a
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote:
> > 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.
In Italy there aren't any, even low profile, so I'd like to show that
maybe in other co
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> > Well, would you women feel less uncomfortable if the an open software
> > project were started by a woman and included mostly or only women?
>
> I wouldn't want a women-only project. I would like a women-led project.
I agree. Excluding males from t
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> > Really? Ok, Dima I just guessed, but Nikita I thought... well, there is
> > a movie about a Nikita who was definetly female... oh well, never too
> > late to learn ;-)
>
> It makes sense that if the movie was called "La Femme Nikita" that it
> would
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote:
> There's an awful lot yet to do for linux. I have been thinking about
> starting such a group for a while (about 2 years), but my time has been
> very limited by the demands of my job. I think this is becoming more manageable
> now, and if there's in
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote:
> I think that the evidence is that very few women are engaged in Linux
> as either leaders of a commercial Linux entrepise or as developers in the
> open source community.
that is clear
> What we need is not a list of some of the very few examples we
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Ian Phillips wrote:
> > so, who is Esther?
>
> Esther Dyson is a venture capitalist who mostly invests in tech stock and
> emerging market companies.
>
> In the UK we've got Eva Pascoe, founder of the Cyberia chain of Cyber-Cafés.
mmm are they involved in any way in open so
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Ingrid Schupbach wrote:
> You've got some men in here - sorry...
Purged them. Thanks :-)
I also purged all the oriental names, because I could never guess :-)
Here's what remained:
Kernel developers
=
Pat Mackinlay (Australia)
Pauline Middelink (Netherland
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Renie wrote:
> I don't know about the other names, but Dima and Nikita are
> Russian male names :) .
Really? Ok, Dima I just guessed, but Nikita I thought... well, there is a
movie about a Nikita who was definetly female... oh well, never too late
to learn ;-)
Eugeni
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,
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
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
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
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
>
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
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
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> For those of you who may NOT have heard yet, I've been rather quiet lately
> because a) I was fired from Linuxcare on Wednesday (for no good reason
> other than saying I was dissatisfied with my compensation) and b) I've
> been really ill since. In fa
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