[UbuntuWomen] Introducing Myself : Shlomi Fish

[Caroline Ford]

2008/6/5 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com>:
> Hi Belinda!
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Belinda A. Lopez <dinda at mac.com> wrote:
>> And I assume the same Shlomi Fish who finally received this response
>> from the Linux Chix Volunteers Lists:
>>
>
> Please say "Hi" next time.
>
>> "Shlomi Fish, based on your posts to the Grrltalk list, you are being
>> unsubbed and banned from re-subscribing. You are not welcome on
>> Linuxchix, based on your trollish bahavior on Grrltalk. LinuxChix is a
>> community for women who like Linux and Free Software, and for women
>> and men who want to support women in computing. Your posts have been
>> the opposite of support, and in spite of repeated posts pointing this
>> out, you have refused to change your language or behavior."
>>
>
> Yes, that's me. I didn't feel too sorry being unsubscribed from there.
> Like I said, I'm not here to only dis LinuxChix, but feel they are a
> sick group, with many social and philosophical problems, and that they
> cannot effectively promote women in FOSS. See this unpublished
> document for more information:
>
> http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/hackeress-guide-to-foss/hackeress-guide-to-foss/
>
> (It only has one appendix about LinuxChix, and is more general)
>
> Anyway, I feel our energy is better spent on actually trying to
> promote women in FOSS, rather than trying to either reject more
> potential contributors or rant about why we were rejected from other
> communities. I brought many good points in my introduction below, and
> hope some of them will spark some active discussion and then some
> constructive actions based on its conclusions.

>>> * A user, developer and advocate of Free and Open Source Software.
>>> I've been
>>> using Mandriva for a long time as my primary desktop, and am now on
>>> Mandriva
>>> Cooker, which is a lot of fun. I've also been using Fedora, Ubuntu,
>>> RHEL, and
>>> other distributions in different contexts, and the experience was
>>> not so bad.

And you don't even use Ubuntu?

Bye Bye!