Gentoo Women

[aidy]

Um no

it still has to do with the topic

and what has christel to do with it

[bertaboy]

Where do you get your stats saying that women only make up 30% of regular computer users? What are the categories? Men, Women, Minors, and Seniors/old people?

I know it's not about regular computer users EXACTLY, but I figure that the vast majority of regular computer users are regular internet users, and according to the bbc[1]:

[aidy]

this has nothing to do with it

it's about how many are attracted to linux

[occ]

[renrutal]

[aidy]

congrats to the fedora peeps!

[filterpunk]

[legine]

This is a damn difficult thread to me. I can hardly express what I want to say. I hope I can get the message through.

I think that a wome project is a nice basic Idea but hmm too locked into a singular symthom.
I think that not only females are treated without respect sometimes. I made my switch with a Linux hipe and run into noob harasment right away in the Debian newsletter. Well actually it was not frealy harasment but I felt that way since I was quite overhelmed by the debian newsletter and did not know if I am doing the right thing. Which resulted in a dislike towards debian today.
So I think I have a hunch what it is like to build trust to a community if you have fears of whatever.

I think we do not need a Women-To-Trust-Project. We need a User-To-Trust-Project. I mean a place were people can go to and find first touch with people they can build trust onto without building a lot of curage to talk to them.
If someone presents herselfe there as mother of four children and gentoo fan, it might encourage a boy to adress her directly with his question because he needs a mother figure. (Okey maybe this is to abstract, but I hope you get the point, and the purpose) Then the mother could take some time and introduce him into the community. encourage him to step towards the forum mailing letter and stuff. Something like this I think would be great.

I hope I have put something new to the discussion and the Idea is presented in a clear way
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[christel]

Hi all!
I know it's been a while since I participated actively on this thread, in part it became a bit tedious and overrun with flames, in part we needed to step away and discuss how to proceed. On top of that, I've been pretty busy with real life stuff, updates of which I'm sure you'll find in my blog at some point! Oh feck it, it involves one of them... you know.. one of them men!

Anyhow, we've had some time to look at the GW idea, we've read and re-read this thread, some people have raised valid concerns and we want to honour those, at the same time we really do believe that such a project could be of great benefit to Gentoo the distribution, the developer and the user community, the wider Linux and FOSS communities and the women involved, we are therefor exploring the possible roads we can take from here and we're about to send the ball rolling.

A few of you showed interest in participating, and I'd love for those of you who did to get in touch. (women@gentoo.org should reach project members, christel@gentoo.org reaches me). I've also made a small announcement post here on the forums and you can check it out here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-489007.html

Again, thank you all for your replies, both positive, negative or even those who were quite indifferent to the project. We've had a lot of feedback, and although the majority has been positive we're just as glad to have had some of you raise concerns.

Christelx
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[jmbsvicetto]

This thread has been locked.

The discussion of this project, now in a new stage, should be done on the new thread craeted by christel.