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GNOME Women Bug Day!

Submitted by mizmo on Wed, 2006-01-18 19:15. Bugs

The GNOME Women group is holding its first Bug Day! All are welcome to join in the fun:

Date: Saturday, January 28th
Time: 9 AM - 9 PM EST
Location: #bugs on irc.gnome.org
Bug Topic: TBD

Bugday Masters: Christian Kirbach (nazgul), Luis Villa (luis)
Deputies: Olav Vitters (bkor), Guilherme Pastore (fatalerror)
Gnome Women Hosts: Máirín Duffy (mizmo), Christine Spang (christine)

(For more details about bug days, see: http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/BugDays)

the fact that you think

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2006-01-20 19:13.

the fact that you think women are a minority in this industry (and, to be fair, they are) shows you exactly why a group like Gnome Women is needed.

No, it doesn't. I don't understand how seperating women from men is somehow good! If one of our goals is to encourage more women to participate in gnome, then we should just do that every time there is a bug day, conference or anything else. But seperate mailing list, irc channel, WTF? It's not encouraging! It's more like "Get out of our way and do your buisness seperately! We don't need your help really."

When women have equal representation we can then talk about "equal rights".
Treating them as some kind of alien life form won't help to archieve this.

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