[UbuntuWomen] UW article for Fullcircle mag

[Leigh Honeywell]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:21:26AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> Vid Ayer wrote:
> > If we keep redirecting women with a terse "use #ubuntu-motu for tech
> > queries or #ubuntu-* for whatever", however appropriate and
> > well-meant, its still  discouraging for her (or any male) who drops by
> > and wants to discuss technical stuff, help out or mentor women.
> 
> Does that happen a lot? I scanned through the last six months of emails
> to the list (there weren't a lot). There don't seem to have been any
> technical questions to the list...

It happens pretty often on IRC, if the folks in #u-w either can't or are
too busy to answer a question, it will get re-directed to the main
channels.

Regarding http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Profiles ,  what about putting an
additional "techie interests" column after the "Ubuntu Participation"
one for members to indicate what their, well, technical interests? I've
been involved "from the sidelines" a couple of FOSS projects for several
years, hanging out in their irc channels, implementing them
professionally, etc :) and I think it'd be worth noting that.  It'll
also have the side-effect of making it clear that we are (mostly) all
techies and advanced users, even if we're not known in the community.

-Leigh