An Open Letter to the Open Source Community

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:23:40PM +0700, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:

> Well, I'm deeply involved in the Ubuntu, just skimming it from time to time,
> unlike ALTLinux and Debian, and I do see the women are very welcome in those
> communities.

As Melissa says, debian-women has done a great deal to improve the 
situation there. However, this hasn't removed the problem entirely 
based on conversations I've had with various people. For the most part, 
I think the Ubuntu community has demonstrated more willingness than 
average to criticise sexist behaviour - compare this to the complete 
confusion as to why anyone might find posting links to pictures of 
lesbians to debian-devel-announce offensive. 

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org