NoNamer wrote:
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> Please get your headlines right, Roy.
>
> These projects are aiming to get women to participate - and if you read
> deep enough, you will find that women are turned off by the Linux/Open
> Source communities.
>
> Is that surprising to you?
>
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> | Open-source project Fedora has launched Fedora Women, a forum and
>> | mailing list, in an effort to encourage more female developers to
>> | participate in its community.
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>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6100569.html
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>>
>> Debian:
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>> http://women.debian.org/
>>
>> Ubuntu:
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>> http://ubuntu-women.org/
>>
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>> | Ubuntu-Women is a team functioning under Ubuntu to provide a platform
>> | and encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu-Linux, a Debian
>> | based free and open-source GNU/Linux software. Our main role will be
>> | along the lines of supplementing and being the stepping stone towardt
>> | he larger Ubuntu-Linux world. Membership is open to all.
>> `----
Orriginal headline
Fedora wants to draw in women
Roy's headline
Fedora *attempting* to draw women in
Launching a web site that is specifically for women seems like an 'attempt'
to draw women in to me.
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