Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: As to the barriers to involvement in Debian by women, it's pretty obvious that our gender participation ratio is decidedly different to that of the IT industry in general, let alone the general population. I believe (although I'd find it harder to

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Yep, I think it behoves us to consider that as well. As I said in a previous message (http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/08/msg00053.html), we should examine what changes to the project's culture need to take place, and whether those would be net-beneficial. It might turn out

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:16:37AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: As to the barriers to involvement in Debian by women, it's pretty obvious that our gender participation ratio is decidedly different to that of the IT industry in general, let alone

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Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: All in all, it is a fairly small difference statistically, I will grant you. Earlier you had written: Because there's a whole pile of potential contributors out there that we're almost certainly driving away. I did that research to determine the

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-08-08 05:27:15 +0100 Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [MJ Ray] Is any discussion involving women ever off-topic for -women, actually? Actually, yes. The list topic is more specific than just involving women or touching on both women and Debian. The focus of the list, and the

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 09:35:25AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On the flip side, how about contributions from people who may not participate if the culture turned too touchy feely and sickeningly sweet? Yep, I think it behoves us to consider that as well. As I said in a previous

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