[UbuntuWomen] This link should make everyone happy

[Elizabeth Bevilacqua]

On 9/7/07, Jennifer Redman <jenred at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We should focus our energies on doing
> > productive things.
>
>  I agree.  How is making sure that people who choose to make sexist remarks
> on a public forum about Ubuntu are shown that there are economic
> ramifications for sexism not productive?  Personally, I think arguing with
> these types is a  waste of time better spent taking actions to cause a
> disruption in the culture that makes it ok for boys to be boys and it's just
> juvenile humor."

Perhaps less important, than a point I will later make, it is a matter
of scale. We have to choose our battles. We cannot chase after every
person who ever posts any sexual female+linux content on the internet
our work will never end. Focusing on improving Ubuntu from within will
go a long way to making it clear that treating women in this manner is
not supported, and people who are so disrespectful to other humans
will not be welcome within the project.

Instead I want to encourage women within this project to send an email
to their loco team mailing list to help plan an event, send an email
answering some question on a user mailing list, send an email to a
project within Ubuntu to encourage them to contribute to the Ubuntu
Classroom project.

> I guess I definitely have an incorrect perspective on what Ubuntu Women is
> supposed to be about.

Ubuntu Women is a positive project that is about encouraging women to
use and contribute to Ubuntu. We follow the ideals of Ubuntu and the
Code of Conduct. I feel that we should speak up when we are slighted,
but I don't feel aggressive attacks such as the one you propose agrees
with these ideals. We are not the political correctness police of the
Internet.

-- 
Elizabeth Bevilacqua
http://www.princessleia.com