Unfortunately... i think that conversation was partly accurate, though the word "ONLY" is a bit strong. Ubuntu was pretty much created to break that tradition, and to some extent it is slowly working (spreading to the not so young, not so male population).
I don't know of many "aimed at/for/by women" communities, but a few of the KUbuntu contributors and Planet-ubuntu members are part of the KDE Women team. http://women.kde.org/ They might have some interesting info on this topic there. I don't particularly agree with the concept of having women-only teams as i think it creates a visible boundary. While the general open communities are often "boys-clubs", they are not limited to boys only. On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 10:08 +0100, London School of Puppetry wrote: > In a conversation recently someone said to me that Ubuntu is only for > techies.....and blokes at that- and young blokes at that! > Out of interest, as a middle-aged woman- I rarely see any other female > names on the forum- but I really like Ubuntu but could not do without > the help from the Forum > -what is the general format of the forum?and could anything be done to > change the age/gender profile to make Ubuntu more accessible to > others-OR are there lots of middle-aged females out there? > > Caroline > > -- > > --- > London School of Puppetry > www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
