[UbuntuWomen] Making Ubuntu-for-all _work_

[Melissa Draper]

Melissa Draper wrote:
> <snip>
>
> As such, I've spent the past hour and a half writing an Open Letter to
> the Open Source Community. The aim is to infiltrate the blogosphere,
> Digg.com and so forth regarding gender discrimination. This gives
> everyone something to point at, and as I speak Rich Johnson has just
> done so (Thanks Rich!).
>
> Changing a document isn't going to win people over, nor is creating yet
> another document, or even adding to the Community Council meeting
> agenda. Creating visibility is what I believe we need to strive for and
> none of the previous actually do that to a satisfactory degree. I can
> only hope that what I have just done will be a step in the right direction.

I think it may have had a bit of an effect :)

At this moment:

At least 95 blog comments and trackbacks:
    - 53 on my blog
    - 11 on rich's blog
    - 31 on jono's blog
    - More that I do not know about
41 Sounder mailing list replies
27 replies on a local linux list I posted to.
5 reiterations on planet.ubuntu.com
Two days of intermittent discussion on countless IRC channels

Who can list off other places it appeared and got noticed?

> See the blog post at http://www.geekosophical.net/?p=119 and Digg the
> post at
> http://digg.com/linux_unix/An_Open_Letter_to_the_Open_Source_Community
>
>   


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Melissa Draper

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