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GNOME Women

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

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Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-06-20 09:55.

I get the impression that people are so keen to define themselves as not being "part of the herd" that they sometimes look to form "exclusive" groups. The group gets together and shows disdain for the "plebs" that don't belong. I have occasionally been included by default and more often excluded, I am aware that such groups change their beliefs if they become popular and thus less distinct.

Yuck :-)

We need groups and constantly form them according to various factors, but the conditions of entry should really be based on interest and readiness to take part of the groups responsibilities rather than who or what you are.

Regards,

Tim

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