Problems of women in OSS projects (was) Re: [ilugd] help (fwd)

2004-02-19 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
LinuxLingam wrote: danese cooper of sun microsystems mentioned that women tend to get turned off by linux-oriented mailing lists due to such, often unintended remarks, as of coure with flames. incidentally, just yesterday i happened to discover that a help-authoring software was coded and

Re: Problems of women in OSS projects (was) Re: [ilugd] help (fwd)

2004-02-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 14:07, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: [snip] please check this out for more details: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=352609 [from sandip]: This is quite an interesting social issue. On one hand people want Internet to be suitable

women-in-linux meet (was) Re: Problems of women in OSS projects (was) Re: [ilugd] help (fwd)

2004-02-19 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
LinuxLingam wrote: accha theek hai! tell me what do you think of the idea of holding a meet or a presentation at a girl's college or institute? The idea is good. But I rather would like to look at it this way - if you want girls talking about linux, they have to be from technical colleges, and

Re: women-in-linux meet (was) Re: Problems of women in OSS projects (was) Re: [ilugd] help (fwd)

2004-02-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 15:06, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: The idea is good. But I rather would like to look at it this way - if you want girls talking about linux, they have to be from technical colleges, and i dont know any girls-only tech colleges. nah! that's the other