[issues] Meta discussion (was: Re: Red Hat/Be)

1999-12-18 Thread Louise
On 18 Dec 1999, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote: > Not directed solely at JB, but I've noticed a few posts here lately just > talking about open source issues and with no focus on women in open > source. While I realise this list is relatively quiet and can probably > cope with a few slightly-off-to

[issues] Attitudes in the workplace

1999-12-18 Thread Louise
I'm a unix sys admin in a Silicon Valley sofware company, which actually has a (relatively) high percentage of women in technical positions (for example, I'm in IT, which is made up of 4 women and 8 men). So I was pretty surprised to receive an email the other day, addressed to three of us in IT