An international organization with this mandate already exists. Details are available at www.linuxchix.org. Re-inventing the wheel is a Linux community illness we need to avoid whenever possible. :)
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 17:23, Thamer Al-Harbash wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Dee-Ann LeBlanc wrote: > > > I think you're getting a bit ahead of yourself. If a guy's running the > > group, as the only woman here to give perspective, it sounds like he's > > trying to gather geek chicks to ask out. ;) I'd say to post an ad to > > the digital eve lists saying you're looking for someone who's > > interested in starting and running such a SIG, and leave it at that. > > The idea is to get it together and leave it on auto-pilot when its > big enough. I don't know _why_ there is such a low turn out of > female Linux users/coders at my local LUG but it's very noticable. > Also I don't know what such a SIG would really want to do for > itself. I want to kickstart it and see where it goes after the > second or third meet (by then I'd just be peripherally involved.) > > That being said if a female UNIX person in Toronto wanted to do this > right now I'd just leave it up to them. > > > Isn't CLUE supposed to be a Canada-wide organization? Those of us in > > Vancouver aren't going to drive out to Toronto for a geekette evening, > > no matter how fun it might be. Perhaps a mailing list might be more > > appropriate. > > You can start one there. I'd like to get something open here in > Toronto with a webpage and mailing list and then fork out. > > I'm going to see what I can get done through Digitaleve and whatever > other contacts I get. I would be happy to share notes with you about > connecting this up to the west coast too. > > -- > Thamer Al-Harbash http://www.whitefang.com/ > Alpha Geek of the Toronto UNIX Cabal: > "Perfection is a lead pipe and one sorry Poser." > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
