Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] #ubuntu-offtopic policies kerfuffle

2009-04-30 Thread Maia Kozheva
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whether or not sexuality is family-friendly, now that I think of it, the inclusion of gender into that list makes even less sense. Going by the literalist interpretation, if sexuality being in banned topics means one can't ask if there are lesbian Ubu

[Ubuntu-lgbt] Looking for an artist

2009-04-26 Thread Maia Kozheva
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been hoping for a while to replace the fox avatar at https://launchpad.net/~sikon . I like it, and it's connected to Linux (google linuxfox), but a friend advised me to remove it to avoid furry associations. Does anyone here have an interest in d

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Maia Kozheva
Doc Kinne wrote: You just made my day, Scott. THANK YOU! Maia, my concern with such a "banned topic" is that it targets LGBT people and is therefore blatantly discriminatory. Now, I say that, at this point, not exactly having READ it so I may be talking out of my butt (although that hasn't h

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Maia Kozheva
Scott James Remnant wrote: > I hadn't heard about that, I'll investigate and raise this with the > community council. > > Scott Gender and sexuality are listed among "controversial topics" that are "not for here" in the !o4o command. To be frank, I can understand people's discomfort about discu

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-23 Thread Maia Kozheva
The team is gradually filling, but its obscurity bugs me - I only found it when searching for "ubuntu lgbt" in Google. Of course, I realize that it's not the kind of team one would want to draw attention to. :) Still, the mailing list could be more lively than this. _