__/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:21 \__
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> "Jeanette" <jrusso2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ea6enr$3su$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Oliver Wong wrote:
>>>
>>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:1679543.ckSa2WRchI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>>> I am sure that everyone is strongly in favour. Good initiative by Red
>>>> Hat,
>>>> who join GNOME (and maybe Debian) in this.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not in favour. Doesn't mean I'm against it either, though; I'm
>>> cautiously neutral. I'm one of those people that think women should be
>>> treated equally with respect to men, as opposed to receiving better
>>> treatment.
>>>
>>
>> I am wondering why Oliver thinks this is being treated better?
>
> I don't think this (assuming "this" refers to the "women of Fedora
> community") is (a form of) being treated better. That's why I'm cautiously
> neutral. I went through the webpage, trying to find out what it's "really"
> about, and didn't find much information besides a few (auto?)biographies of
> women contributing to Linux and some external links (e.g. to
> LinuxChix.org).
>
> Since I don't really know what this group's goals, and what the
> methodologies that this group uses to achieve those goals, are, I am
> neither in favour, nor against it. I am merely "cautiously neutral".
>
> - Oliver
Oliver, Jeanette,
You may find the following presentation interesting:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~hmw26/talks/fosdem.pdf
I found it in the Lxer feeds a couple of weeks ago. Hanna
Wallach was a Ph.D student of the same guy whom I tried to
be supervised by at Cambridge. So I had some brief
correspondence with her and, by serendipity, 3 years later I
stumble upon her presentation.
Best wishes,
Roy
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