In message of 28 Aug, "Sean Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:58 AM, London School of Puppetry
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Much relates to necessity and opportunity. As most management is male, then
> > there will be fewer opportunities given to women. But I kno
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 16:47 +0100, Eddie Armstrong wrote:
> Dianne Reuby wrote:
> > We're having practically this same discussion on one of my crochet
> > mailing lists - except that we're wondering why females dominate the
> > lists and there are so few men. :)
> >
> M, I wonder why too :
Time Warner didn't help... buy flippin' Netscape and then continue to
use IE's rendering engine in their AOL browser.
Sean
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Dianne Reuby wrote:
> We're having practically this same discussion on one of my crochet
> mailing lists - except that we're wondering why females dominate the
> lists and there are so few men. :)
>
M, I wonder why too :-)
Eddie
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On Thursday 28 August 2008 11:47:46 Lucy wrote:
> On 28/08/2008, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi there - I suppose my concern is not a personal need to join a group
> > etc- but rather the impression an organisation makes- I think Ubuntu is
> > great- and the support fro
2008/8/28 Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 28/08/2008, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi there - I suppose my concern is not a personal need to join a group
> etc-
> > but rather the impression an organisation makes- I think Ubuntu is great-
> > and the support from the 'com
On 28/08/2008, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there - I suppose my concern is not a personal need to join a group etc-
> but rather the impression an organisation makes- I think Ubuntu is great-
> and the support from the 'community'(male or female) helping me to make a
>
2008/8/28 Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 28/08/2008, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Much relates to necessity and opportunity. As most management is male,
> then
> > there will be fewer opportunities given to women. But I know several
> women
> > working in IT, and everyo
2008/8/28 Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 28/08/2008, Dianne Reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We're having practically this same discussion on one of my crochet
> > mailing lists - except that we're wondering why females dominate the
> > lists and there are so few men. :)
>
> I think the ways
On 28/08/2008, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Much relates to necessity and opportunity. As most management is male, then
> there will be fewer opportunities given to women. But I know several women
> working in IT, and everyone I know uses computers to some extent. I am t
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:58 AM, London School of Puppetry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Much relates to necessity and opportunity. As most management is male, then
> there will be fewer opportunities given to women. But I know several women
Interestingly, at Cornhill Insurance (later Allianz) wh
2008/8/28 Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > computers is mainly because of social upbringing. For example, in
> > India (and some other asian countries) there are more equal numbers of
> > men and women working in programming). I
On 28/08/2008, Dianne Reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We're having practically this same discussion on one of my crochet
> mailing lists - except that we're wondering why females dominate the
> lists and there are so few men. :)
I think the ways of social interaction between groups of men and
On 28/08/2008, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What worries me about any thread such as this is that there is a
> serious danger that we create allegations of discrimination when in
> reality it's just the way it is - women are programmed differently to
> men (no pun intended) and seem
We're having practically this same discussion on one of my crochet
mailing lists - except that we're wondering why females dominate the
lists and there are so few men. :)
Dianne
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> computers is mainly because of social upbringing. For example, in
> India (and some other asian countries) there are more equal numbers of
> men and women working in programming). It wasn't so long ago that
This wasn't my experienc
On 27/08/2008, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> There, the girls were encouraged to sit at the
> keyboard and, those that did, soon realised that nothing drastic or
> terminal was going to happen.
>
> This was about 25 years ago and bears no comparison with schools today
> but I won
Many years ago, when my wife was a teacher of modern foreign languages
and schools had very few computers, the question of girls versus boys in
the use of computers was often discussed at some length. As a
generalisation, it was very obvious that boys were very keen to get
there hands on the few ma
Just for the record, I'm a 28 year woman (my username is BinaryDigit on the
forums) and a HUGE tech geek. I've always been interested in computers,
electronics, linux, and hardware. I think it's just something that you are
born with...being technically inclined. I know only 2 girls from college
(
2008/8/7 London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In a conversation recently someone said to me that Ubuntu is only for
> techies.and blokes at that- and young blokes at that!
> Out of interest, as a middle-aged woman- I rarely see any other female
> names on the forum- but I really like
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jai Harrison wrote:
>
>> What we really need is a multiplatform messaging protocol + client to
>> cut into the Microsoft instant messaging market - the younger
>> generation of Microsoft Windows users.
>
> Isn't that what Pidgin
Jai Harrison wrote:
> What we really need is a multiplatform messaging protocol + client to
> cut into the Microsoft instant messaging market - the younger
> generation of Microsoft Windows users.
Isn't that what Pidgin is for or have I misunderstood?
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Michael G Fletcher wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I've tried to convert girls before but the problem is they're focused
>> on things like Microsoft's "Windows Live Messenger" and social use of
>> their operatin
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've tried to convert girls before but the problem is they're focused
> on things like Microsoft's "Windows Live Messenger" and social use of
> their operating system. Whilst this can (and is) done with GNU/Linux
>
Hey,
I've tried to convert girls before but the problem is they're focused
on things like Microsoft's "Windows Live Messenger" and social use of
their operating system. Whilst this can (and is) done with GNU/Linux
they don't have Windows Live Messenger. No, it does not run in Wine
(http://appdb.wi
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 21:04 +0100, London School of Puppetry wrote:
>
>
>
> 2008/8/8 James Edward Grabham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> everyone is welcome and no one is put off (hopefully!)
>
>
>
> I know some people (geeks, and red hat users) who don't li
2008/8/8 James Edward Grabham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> everyone is welcome and no one is put off (hopefully!)
>
> I know some people (geeks, and red hat users) who don't like ubuntu,
> because of the community, and general opinion of Ubuntu, but that's
> another issue all together. :S
>
> James (ma
everyone is welcome and no one is put off (hopefully!)
I know some people (geeks, and red hat users) who don't like ubuntu,
because of the community, and general opinion of Ubuntu, but that's
another issue all together. :S
James (male, Ubuntu user for just over 2 years, and 16 BTW)
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London School of Puppetry wrote:
> In a conversation recently someone said to me that Ubuntu is only for
> techies.and blokes at that- and young blokes at that!
> Out of interest, as a middle-aged woman- I rarely see any other female names
> on the forum- but I really like Ubuntu but could not
London School of Puppetry wrote:
In a conversation recently someone said to me that Ubuntu is only for
techies.and blokes at that- and young blokes at that!
We get all shapes and sizes in the ubuntu community, from the 13 year
old to the 70 year old we have them all. And i think its the fa
On 07/08/2008, Michael Holloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think, (and without starting WW3 here) that the statistics are linked
> to a whole lot more. Women have always been welcome to join in these
> communities. (or at least for a long time ?? don't know how it was in
> the 80s). But:
Th
> I've missed loads, I didn't realise there were so many.
>
I know, i was just looking too - there really are loads!
> > communities are often "boys-clubs", they are not limited to boys
> only.
> Unfortunately, the statistics disagree with you. For what ever reason
> the FOSS community is almost
London School of Puppetry wrote:
> In a conversation recently someone said to me that Ubuntu is only for
> techies.and blokes at that- and young blokes at that!
> Out of interest, as a middle-aged woman- I rarely see any other female names
> on the forum- but I really like Ubuntu but could not
I'm middle-aged and female - someone has to keep these youngsters in
order! :)
But there is a women's group on the forum, which I don't read much - I
can't help feeling that gender-specific groups are a bit discriminatory.
Unless the object is to show that women *are* using Ubuntu and
encouraging
On 07/08/2008, Stephen O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My girlfriend is interested in gaming, but cares not for IT and
> operating systems etc. She came to a LUG meeting with us once but only
> because we were watching a video and it was in a pub that served good beer.
My boyfriend is inte
On 07/08/2008, Michael Holloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know of many "aimed at/for/by women" communities, but a few of
> the KUbuntu contributors and Planet-ubuntu members are part of the KDE
> Women team. http://women.kde.org/ They might have some interesting info
> on this topic
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Lucy wrote:
> The people I know who use Linux and go to LUG meetings are anything
> from 16-70 (at a guess) year old males, with a few women in between.
> So there's certainly a large spread, but from my experience people
> tend to get involved at coll
On 07/08/2008, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In a conversation recently someone said to me that Ubuntu is only for
> techies.and blokes at that- and young blokes at that!
> Out of interest, as a middle-aged woman- I rarely see any other female names
> on the forum- but
And apparently there is also
http://ubuntu-women.org/
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 10:08 +0100, London School of Puppetry wrote:
> In a conversation recently someone said to me that Ubuntu is only for
> techies.and blokes at that- and young blokes at that!
> Out of interest, as a middle-aged woman-
Unfortunately... i think that conversation was partly accurate, though
the word "ONLY" is a bit strong. Ubuntu was pretty much created to break
that tradition, and to some extent it is slowly working (spreading to
the not so young, not so male population).
I don't know of many "aimed at/for/by wom
In a conversation recently someone said to me that Ubuntu is only for
techies.and blokes at that- and young blokes at that!
Out of interest, as a middle-aged woman- I rarely see any other female names
on the forum- but I really like Ubuntu but could not do without the help
from the Forum
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