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GNOME Women

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2005-06-14 12:12. GNOME

Hanna Wallach recently announced the formation of the GNOME Women project: "Concerned about the lack of female GNOME developers and inspired by the success of the Debian Women Project, Máirín Duffy and I have founded GNOME Women, a project to encourage more women to participate in GNOME development. At present, we’re starting small—just an IRC channel and a forthcoming mailing list—but I’m hopeful that the project will be as enourmously needed and successful as Debian Women. If you’re interested in getting involved, do drop by the IRC channel (#gnome-women on irc.gnome.org) or send me an email.
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A mailing list and archives are now available, with a website also in the works.

Thanks for the links

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-06-17 05:56.

The arguments in this document are useful in almost all life situations and much of it applies to how to treat people in general, not just women.

You have made me think about all sorts of situations where I know I did something wrong but wasn't objective enough to work out exactly why.

I don't think that one can be perfect, but improvement is possible if the problem can be clearly understood. My understanding is better for what I have read there and I am grateful to you for posting the links. I don't know if you are Val Henson or not but I owe thanks to her too.

Corollarys are, for example, that it's not really possible to make jokes or criticise any group of any kind because there's likely to be someone in your audience who feels directly or indirectly connected to that group and who will be offended.

When I see women making jokes about men or criticising "men" as a whole I feel disheartened because even if I try to behave well I'll still be lumped with "the rest."

I suppose that one should behave well regardless of how one is perceived and regardless of any behaviour received in return. It should be a matter of self-respect to be fair and considerate.

Regards,

Tim

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