[UbuntuWomen] questionnable stuff on french ubuntu planet

[Vid Ayer]

Hi :)

On 5/10/07, bapoumba <bapoumba at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.kagou.fr/post/2007/05/09/No-comment
> Basically, from the blog: a new idea for a sexy decoration on your CDs.
> Comments are usual, a couple saying its stupid, most of them its humor,
> or nice. I can translate if you do not read french.

I dont (read French) but take your word for it.

Also a whois shows "ubuntu-br.org" belonging to Cannonical. How do we
check if this image originated in that Loco community first. Do we
have any folks from Brazil here or atleast someone who understands the
language to check stuff out.


> Here is my blog post, I did not feed it into planet ubuntu-women or
> planet ubuntu-users, and closed comments:
> http://bapoumba.free.fr/?p=154

I think you should not have restricted your feeds on the UW planet.
This was discussed it a long time ago and I had mentioned very clearly
that any  volunteer's  blog being aggregated on the UW planet will not
restricted based on the Ubuntu, Linux or technology tags, which I
believe is just a part of our lives not whole.


> I did not want to stir old stories (I already had issues with the french
> ubuntu community when I moderated a thread on the french forum, same
> kind of picture, less clothes. I rarely not go there now, I stepped down
> from moderation, partly due to what happened).

At UW, its unwritten policy to "listen" to others, even contrasting
viewpoints :) So please dont restrict yourself.  I say this because a
lot of times we do not know what is happenning across communities and
its impossible for a single person to be everywhere even if they were
involved in the community full-time.

In most Loco communities people overstep the border and get away with
it but I assure you, that will not happen here. There is strength in
collective voices compared to a single woman in a team where men are
many times in number.



> What can we do ?

Apparently a lot as you just saw :)

> This is completely about women representations in Ubuntu community. And
> what we accept, what we do not. I did not do anything on my own, but the
> blog post and emailing Jono. I'm not afraid of fighting, I've already
> done it, can do it again. But I think a collective action would be far
> more valuable.

You were right to take this up with Jono and thanks Matthais for the
quick action on it.  We definitely need a policy about women's
representation in the Ubuntu community.

TBH, I find it strange and unacceptable that women in technology are
often asked to accept covert/overt sexism under the tag of "humor" !?


>
> Thanks for reading,

Isabelle, thanks for telling us about it :)

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