[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There's only 5 linuxchix chapters in Canada, though. CLUE > should try to > encourage the formation of more.
I have to confess that I've never checked out any of the women-only groups, but I'm a bit of a hermit and overbusy and rarely attend the VanLUG meetings either. What will get me out to an event is good speakers, a good location that works for me (which tends to not work for most people being that I now live in the boonies!), or something truly interesting that doesn't just involve someone showing why they know far more than anyone else in geekspeak. My biggest involvement with VanLUG has been to donate author copies of books for door prizes and whatnot, teach at one of their educational days, and speak at the Vancouver Comdex on occasion. I tend to be more involved online because I don't have to drive an hour here and there to talk to like-minded people. That's just my little anti-social thing I guess. Women-only events don't really interest me in the tech venue unless they're somehow getting better speaker/topics than the "everyone" events. :) > > Plus, Val Henson (a speaker at OLS) told me that she'd be > posting the female > perspective on why women don't come out to regular LUG > meetings on some web > site. There's a hint that she's still intending on posting > 'HOWTO Encourage > Women in Linux' at: > > http://www.nmt.edu/~val/ It's really pretty simple. Treat everyone like people. Don't talk down to anyone. Don't get into uber-geek p*ss*ng matches. Don't assume that someone only does this or that because of what you see of them at a glance. The usual stuff. :) --- Dee-Ann LeBlanc Computer Writer, Linux Specialist LinuxPlanet Reporter http://www.Dee-AnnLeBlanc.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
