[UbuntuWomen] Ubuntu4girls projetc

[Jan Claeys]

Op zondag 30-09-2007 om 16:44 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef daiana
heinrich:
> first of all: hello and sorry i'm interferring....

This is a discussion list, so interfering is actually desired, and
nothing to apologise for!  :-)


> and i'm a goth. but i see it the other way, i like
> black and therefore identified myself with the goth
> movement. and not the opposite way.

Well, black is my favourite "colour" too, and I like many things in goth
culture (music, graphic art, literature, ...), but I don't consider
myself a goth (I also like other styles of art).


> but: i don't like the way an idea (ok, maybe not
> embraced by all of us) is criticized instead of being
> improved. 
> 
> well... associating girls with pink doesn't seem ok to
> me, i hate pink too. that's the weak point of the idea
> that started the discussion.
> 
> but the positive is: someone is making efforts to make
> linux, especially ubuntu, popular. this deserves
> respect.
> 
> so: why stuck on principles we can't change so easily?
> just take that what we have and make the best of it!
> in this very situation i'll rephrase: let us just not
> argue ”why pink”, but, if it's necessary, use pink,
> but give the girls, women, ladies etc. a start into
> the linux world!

I agree.  And I'm sure pink will convince at least _some_ young girls to
use it (and maybe some others too, but that might depend on the rest of
the content).  OTOH it might be nice to give them some other options for
colours too.  It might be useful to make this culture-specific too.


-- 
Jan Claeys