discuss: Review needed of 'Encourage Women in Linux' HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Review needed of 'Encourage Women in Linux' HOWTO
From:
Val Henson ####@####.####
Date:
8 Dec 2003 00:03:15 -0000
Message-Id: <20031208000313.GC16154@speare5-1-14>
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 02:41:03PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Jutta Wrage:
> > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 13:40:04 -0700
> >
> > One time I had a call at work: A man, who phoned me explicitly not
> > knowing me being a woman, told me what he wanted to know and when I
> > begun to answer he asked: "Could I please talk to one of your male
> > colleagues?"
>
> Truly stunning. Before now, I wouldn't have believed that anyone with
> such a thick skull as him could have managed to grow up into adulthood.
Please reread HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux then. The entire
document exists because these "thick-skulled" people are commonplace
in the Linux community (and elsewhere). The HOWTO is not theoretical,
it is a compendium of real-life experiences at LUGs, on mailing lists,
on IRC, at conferences, at work, and at home.
-VAL
