[UbuntuWomen] Sites and site edits

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Hi All,

Welcome  Elizabeth !

On 3/18/06, Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz at princessleia.com> wrote:
>
> I've been involved with LinuxChix for several years, and have coordinated the

yes, I have remember you there :)


> The site in question was this:
>
> http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/UbuntuWomenFAQs
>
> I got to the "Why isn't there a Ubuntu (fill in minority here)?" section and
> was somewhat troubled by the bit in the second paragraph about IRC. I would
> like to edit it, but first need clarification as to what the point of it is.

Ahem... I have read it too and well.... there is a lot that needs to
be re-written there so please help out.  Actually this[0] is our main
page and this link is sent in the email message you get after signing
up and also mentioned on the Lists page.
Personally, I much prefer the how-to which Val Henson co-wrote and our
site will definitely link that :)

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen


> so people don't know their gender. In fact, even my own IRC nick "pleia2" is
> often assumed to be male if people don't make the Leia connection.

That's true, I do prefer being judged by the work/contribution and not
the gender aspect but life isnt fair always :)


> Or is the point that F/OSS projects often have meetings in IRC, a medium that
> not many women communicate in, and so are somewhat shut out of these

I rather prefer emails to IRC as I dont sit online to chat 24x7 nor
can I type fast :-). IMHO, unlike a conversation with a human it does
not give you the time to think while you are searching for your reply
among other peoples conversation. Here emails and how-to's are better
as its more easy to assimilate and find solutions.


>
> Susana in IRC then posted some other links for me to check out, which quickly
> had my head spinning - do we have a central location for all the project
> documentation? A site I where I can point my friends to and say "This is the
> UbuntuWomen site"?

The *official* UW website is www.ubuntu-women.org. Now we need to plan
and set-up the  website, which will be hosted on Canonical servers. I
have sent a mail regarding this so please reply to that thread.


>
> As far as I can tell, the following pages are all ours:
>
> http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/UbuntuWomenFAQs
> http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=76

AFAIK, they are not hosted on Canonical servers as ubuntuforums is not
"officially" sponsored by Canonical/Ubuntu.



> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women

yes, hosted on Canonical servers.


> http://www.ubuntuwomen.org/

again ...its not hosted on Canonical servers and the domain name has
been privately registered and does not belong to Canonical/Ubuntu. A
whois will give you that information.
In my earlier mail to the list, I had mentioned that Canonical had
registered three TLD's which are : www.ubuntu-women.com,
www.ubuntu-women.net and www.ubuntu-women.org {note the hyphen between
ubuntu and women} so for all practical purposes, they are the official
URL's.




> Plus the IRC channel on freenode.
>

Anyone can create an IRC channel and an Ubuntu Member would manage the
channel and be the sysop as its done for official Ubuntu channels.  I
had mentioned this earlier so maybe Mark or Henrik would like to
clarify the Canonical position on this.


> Are there more?
> Should we be working to consolidate and integrate all of these? I think *at
> least* linking them would be helpful.
>

They will be consolidated soon.

Hope that helps :)

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