[Thomas Bushnell, BSG] > I agree that Debian has a problem in this area and that it's worth > worrying about and trying to fix. I do not think that Helen has > given us any information about it; she is guessing at what men > usually do, and imputing that to us, and guessing about how women > feel.
That may be true. However, you may have overlooked Erinn Clark's post to this thread, which, fortuitously, has just the sort of information you seem to be asking for. I have little to add to her post, which you can find here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/debian-project-200403/msg00086.html All I can really add is that she's not making this stuff up. I've been on freenode::#debian for a few months now and I've seen the harassment, the unwelcome advances, the juvenile behavior, the abuse, that she's talking about. It's not all sexual in nature, to be sure - the #debian channel sometimes drives away potential *male* users as well. WRT mailing list behavior, I don't have a lot of grounds to comment - I haven't been actively following the lists for nearly as long. Peter
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