On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladyp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen <u...@speedy.net> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladyp...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Clarification: even though I forwarded this to the list as part of my >> > role as co-webmaster of haifux, and as a service to the community, I >> > strongly join guy's view, and more: >> > >> > Please do not embarrass Haifux/Linux-il by declaring yourselves as >> > members, when taking part in a stereotypic low-denominator TV program. >> >> I suppose you don't expect pretty young girls to use Linux. So I guess >> you think the men who use Linux are all geeks? > > I think there are many geeks (and I do not mean "hnoonim"=socially > challenged , but people who are autodidact, keen on technology/science, have > a lot of enthusiasm and proud of it) in the FOSS community, both male and > female. I doubt the production was looking for the females, though, when > they asked me to forward this.
I think this list is at least 90% men. And the Hebrew word for geeks is חנונים... Uri Even-Chen Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 E-mail: u...@speedy.net Website: http://www.speedy.net/ _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
