Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 20, 2006 07:02 AM
I agree wholeheartedly, and it applies to sex/gender as well as race. And that's why I maintain that, if the GNOME project is going to target "women", then they should also target "Blacks" and "Hispanics" with this effort as well. They consistently get told "you can't do math/science/computers/etc." While I have proven the naysayers wrong, I'm the rarity. I hope that you agree that I shouldn't be a rarity.
Unfortunately, it seems that the GNOME project has no interest in reaching out to anybody but (generally White) women. That's one of the two major problems that I have with this "effort".
Additionally, the same way that it is incumbent upon Black Americans to make better, more productive choices in their lives, like going into computers as I did, it is equally incumbent upon the White women--heck, the Black women too--to make the same effort to join the engineering/hacker community that I did, if they want to join. That's why I'm here and my "bruthas" are still in the 'hood. That means putting in the time/homework and doing what others do to get to know the RMSes, Linuses, Ebens, Theos, etc. out there from whom we all can learn. Women need to make that effort. I don't see too many willing to make that effort, and I believe *that* is the key reason why there aren't that many women in hacking teams. I consider women as welcome as I do any man, but you've got to put the effort forth...just like any man. That's the other problem I have with this latest GNOME "effort".
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Re:Oh, please....
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 20, 2006 07:02 AMUnfortunately, it seems that the GNOME project has no interest in reaching out to anybody but (generally White) women. That's one of the two major problems that I have with this "effort".
Additionally, the same way that it is incumbent upon Black Americans to make better, more productive choices in their lives, like going into computers as I did, it is equally incumbent upon the White women--heck, the Black women too--to make the same effort to join the engineering/hacker community that I did, if they want to join. That's why I'm here and my "bruthas" are still in the 'hood. That means putting in the time/homework and doing what others do to get to know the RMSes, Linuses, Ebens, Theos, etc. out there from whom we all can learn. Women need to make that effort. I don't see too many willing to make that effort, and I believe *that* is the key reason why there aren't that many women in hacking teams. I consider women as welcome as I do any man, but you've got to put the effort forth...just like any man. That's the other problem I have with this latest GNOME "effort".
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