On Jun 25, 2010, at 17:25, Peter Lewis <pete@muddygoat.org> wrote:
On Friday 25 Jun 2010 at 22:06 Xyne wrote:
I suspect of all the places a girl could stumble upon in the net, this one is the least likely to be it.
Well, when they do, they'll be able to confirm the stereotype of male computer geeks and their attitudes towards them.
What stereotype? I'm a computer geek, and I'm fine with women, in general and in computing. Stereotyping is bullshit generalization that doesn't actually apply to anyone in particular.
Indeed.
I've always been quite proud that the free / open source software world has projects like these:
http://women.debian.org/home/ http://community.kde.org/KDE_Women http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen
I know the comments were just supposed to be a bit of fun, but perhaps they highlight that something like wouldn't be a bad idea in Arch too.
Pete.
Patches welcome :) , preferably from women actually involved in Arch, not pseudo-politically-correct males trying to make themselves feel better. -- Andrew