Jeremy Anderson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 14:30 +0530, Vid Ayer wrote:
>> Its about singling a particular gender and drawing attention to them >> and also the wording. ".. for ladies" tends to imply (even if >> unintentional) that women dont use Linux. That is a problem as we are >> still a minority (around 2% in FOSS). > > > Would someone please direct me to this finding of 2%? Not fighting here > I would just love to see it. It may be something that helps me look at > this differently but I am not sure it can. Who are we going to blame > that it is 2%? I am doing my part my daughter is two and can make it > through many of the levels of supertux... Do we blame teachers? See > the thing is IMHO that more women would be like you if you don't > complain about this t-shirt and let these IMers in high school who are > in a large part women/girls see the shirts out there and ask what it > means? I have converted at least 10 Ladies in my family alone. 4 of my > wife's friends (women) and they would never go back. I have sent them > all this link and they think it is crazy that there is even an issue. > Two women helped come up with it that I saw in an e-mail... >>> I think everyone in the Ubuntu Community is awesome no >>> matter what their gender, race, religion, etc… >> I agree with you 101% .... and the community is what drew me to Ubuntu >> 3 years ago. I dont even work in the IT industry and yet volunteer >> simply coz I like the community. Talking of Linux in my country >> (India), hardly any women volunteer in the Linux community from India. >> We are a handful volunteers (almost negligible) while the Indian IT >> industry has above 40% women working (read, paid workers). Its not >> related to this issue but does not help making it an inclusive effort >> either. >> >> Jeremy, Actually, Vid exaggerated the figure. It is rather, only 1.5% female participation. The figure of 1.5% comes from the flosspols report, an EU funded study into Open Source. You can find the report and the recommendations at http://flosspols.org/ -- Sincerely Melissa Draper http://www.meldraweb.com Phone: 0404 595 395 (intl): +61 404 595 395 P.O Box 1412 Lavington, NSW 2641 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
