Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Women in Free and Open Source

2010-09-21 Thread Helen
Jimmy, thank you for sharing your experiences. It's funny, mine are a little similar, except that I'm the one grabbing the keyboard! It's not because you're the man, it's just because you're the one who knows what to do in this situation. The separateness of conversation over a meal that you menti

RE: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Women in Free and Open Source

2010-09-21 Thread Jimmy Pierre
-Original Message- From: Helen [mailto:postmodernhousew...@gmail.com] Sent: mardi 21 septembre 2010 00:20 To: opensuse-marketing@opensuse.org Cc: opensuse-ambassad...@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Women in Free and Open Source >>>I think

Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Women in Free and Open Source

2010-09-21 Thread Izabel Valverde
Hei Helen, Hello all, I'm not sure if I would like to go through this kind of discussion... We have several initiatives to make women feel confortable in FOSS or in any other IT issues. As developer in the past and as manager nowdays the only thing that I can say is: it's hard but wich profession

Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Women in Free and Open Source

2010-09-20 Thread RICARDO CHUNG
Hey, On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Koushik Kumar Nundy wrote: > Moves to include women, or any other perceived minority, into the > mainstream is always dicey, with affirmative action more often than > not being considered as reverse discrimination. This program by GNOME > [1][2], for example

Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Women in Free and Open Source

2010-09-20 Thread Koushik Kumar Nundy
Moves to include women, or any other perceived minority, into the mainstream is always dicey, with affirmative action more often than not being considered as reverse discrimination. This program by GNOME [1][2], for example preferentially offers women paid internships, because they are women. And