Fighting Impostor Syndrome

2013-08-16 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, One of the things that came up during the DebConf talk on Women in Debian is that a lot of women (and men as well) are affected by impostor syndrome. This is when you feel that you are not good enough to be here (wherever here is, Debian, FOSS, your job, etc). I've personally been affected

Re: Fighting Impostor Syndrome

2013-08-16 Thread Luk Claes
On 08/16/2013 10:55 AM, Margarita Manterola wrote: Hi, Hi One of the things that came up during the DebConf talk on Women in Debian is that a lot of women (and men as well) are affected by impostor syndrome. This is when you feel that you are not good enough to be here (wherever here is,

Re: Fighting Impostor Syndrome

2013-08-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Margarita Manterola wrote: Any other ideas of what we could do to fight impostor syndrome? Some ideas from the Geek Feminism wiki: https://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Impostor_syndrome#Combatting_impostor_syndrome -- bye, pabs

Re: D-W mailing list

2013-08-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 02:46:50PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: I think it's a nice initiative, and I certainly thank those links. They are interesting and talk about things that I guess some of us think about. During our talk, Enrico suggested how a publicly accesible and archived mailing list

Re: Fighting Impostor Syndrome

2013-08-16 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 16/08/13 11:42, Paul Wise wrote: Some ideas from the Geek Feminism wiki: https://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Impostor_syndrome#Combatting_impostor_syndrome That's a great document! -- Martín Ferrari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-16 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi, We had a small chat today with people that were interested in the topic. I wanted to have this mini-debconf later this year, but we learned that there's going to be a mini-debconf in Cambridge in mid November, and the mini-debconf in Paris is also likely to happen end of 2013 or beginning of

Re: Fighting Impostor Syndrome

2013-08-16 Thread Laura Arjona
Hi all On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Margarita Manterola wrote: Any other ideas of what we could do to fight impostor syndrome? Sometimes it seems that first you need to prepare yourself, and after that, when you are ready (when?), you step ahead to do X. But it's not like this: we

Re: Thinking of organising a special mini-debconf

2013-08-16 Thread Mònica Ramírez Arceda
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 15:49 +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: Regarding locations, there were a couple of proposals (Barcelona or Romania), but of course nothing is written in stone since we don't yet have a venue or a set date. On behalf of the Barcelona bid ;) I've just sent a mail to

Re: Fighting Impostor Syndrome

2013-08-16 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:55:47AM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote [edited]: One of the things that came up during the DebConf talk on Women in Debian is that a lot of women (and men as well) are affected by impostor syndrome. This is when you feel that you are not good enough to be here

Re: D-W mailing list

2013-08-16 Thread Martín Ferrari
Another very relevant link, on harassment at tech conferences: http://geekfeminism.org/2013/08/15/that-time-i-wasnt-harassed-at-a-conference/ -- Martín Ferrari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact