Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > When I first became a developer, I found debian-devel frightening, > hostile and very intimidating, I must admit this was not so because of > gender issues. [...]
In fact, I suspect the correlation is not very strong. > [...] more of a personal issue "ok, so there's the linuxchix, what's wrong > with Debian?" linuxchix specifically exclude men from some meetings and facilities. Absence of a similar group was a feature. It's a shame that things deteriorated to the point one was created. > [...] As there's is absolutely no seggregation in the debian-women > environment, men can benefit, and I'm sure *do* benefit, from this > wellcoming climate too. Is a bus with a whites-only section at the front segregated? Really, it is simple to make the debian-women project not segregated, but it seems clear from http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2004/08/msg00100.html that segregation is intended for some parts. Why wouldn't profiling friendly male contributors help? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Subscribed to this list. No need to Cc, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]