/me really happy to see that there is some debate on the background section.
Greetings from Venezuela. 2013/6/7 Jisha <[email protected]> > Definitely prefer this version, less negative, more encouraging :) > > J > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Satabdi Das <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding Svaksha's mail since she is not in our group (yet). >> >> Satabdi >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: स्वक्ष <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:18 AM >> Subject: Re: [IndiChix] Poster Competition >> To: LinuxChix - India <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:23 AM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote: >> > WFS India in collaboration with Glug-Cal, Fedora and Mozilla announces >> > a poster competition on women's, LGBT and gender-related issues in >> > India using free software tools as part of the extended Cultural >> > Freedom Day celebrations. >> > >> > >> > http://www.wfs-india.org/p/poster-competition-womens-and-lgbt-issues >> >> Hey, Where can I submit a patch for the "Background" section? I found >> the language quite brusque which wont help if we want to bridge the >> gap. Since it is about women, I am taking the liberty of providing a >> bug-fix below :) >> >> First a short note on why I'm rooting for a change: Like most Indian >> woman I too have experienced all the issues first-hand, written >> (erm..ranted on my blog and in IRL discussions) a lot on sexism and >> other issues we women face BUT all that has been limited to my blog or >> IRL discussions. When we are creating a poster to get more women and >> students involved in FOSS, it is easier to use language that is more >> professional and inviting. People respond better to politeness (I >> know, I do) than sarcasm and rudeness. We can speak the truth about >> women and LGBT in a friendlier, polite manner - the impact will be >> greater. >> >> That said, here is the patch (its not perfect, so feel free to bug-fix >> it): >> >> Background >> >> India being a multi-ethnic, multi-racial country, while coping with >> challenges of corruption and a billion (and growing) population is >> slowly coping with the silent half - women and the LGBT populace. >> India has a 5000-year history that straddles the the modern - the >> spectrum of a cell-phone totting farmer, a tweeting teenager, a >> technophile home-maker, an artistic designer, and half a billion more >> who are embracing technology in Planck time. >> >> And yet, this majority are still finding their voices in their >> struggle to retain their space while retaining basic human values >> within our society. Your challenge is to bring out your virtual >> brushes and paint away your thoughts that will pictorally depict this >> struggle while celebrating their diversity. >> >> Can you retain the essence of India's 5000-year history that straddles >> the modern world? Exercise your creative freedom with Free/Libre open >> source software and other technologies. Your poster may just be the >> inspiration that gives them a voice to fight for their rights, a >> vision of a better tomorrow, a tomorrow that has the freedom and space >> for their dreams while allowing them to remain rooted in the Indian >> ethos. >> >> >> </end-patch-for-Background-section-Poster-Competition-on-Women's-and-LGBT-Issues> >> >> If you have hosted the poster text on github (or any other dvcs), >> please point me to it so that I can make a pull request for the above. >> I just spent over an hour being creative in my editing (instead of the >> Julia workshop announcement) and its 3 am, so please be kind in your >> criticism. I have also tried to retain some text that talks about the >> social problems in a discreet manner - it alludes to problems that >> need solutions but does not explicitly describe it. In a country that >> struggles to keep the "girl child" in schools, its easy to scare them >> off with words like "sex education" - At some schools, parents would >> be up in arms over it. >> >> I also wish the rule #2 would be relaxed a bit. When I started >> volunteering in 2005 as a list-admin for two mailing lists at >> linuxchix.org, I was still using Windows on a partitioned drive. It >> took me a few months to ditch the dual-boot and switch over completely >> to Ubuntu Linux. ...and I still have never used more than half the >> tools listed there. So yeah, I plead ignorance to the xcf and eps >> formats too. >> >> Hope you can consider some of my suggestions ! >> >> Thank you ! >> -- >> svaksha ॥ http://svaksha.com ॥ >> _______________________________________________ >> IndiChix mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/indichix >> >> >> >> -- >> Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important >> that you do it <http://bangalore.aidindia.org/>. >> Find me on the internet <http://about.me/satabdi> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> WFS-India mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> Message archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at >> http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from >> your account settings. >> >> -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > > WFS-India mailing list > [email protected] > > Message archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at > http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your > account settings. > > -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org > > -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:tatica LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56
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