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Melissa Draper wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 11:46 +0000, Thyberthpithe wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 7 Jan 2010, at 05:53, Melissa Draper wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The #ubuntu-offtopic channel is not logged, so the 96%-male part of the
community gets to socialise without being recorded. I don't see any good
reason why the 50%-woman part that is #ubuntu-women should be forced to
socialise under other conditions.
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<pre wrap="">This!!
Why can's we have an #ubuntu-women-offtopic channel?
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I genuinely believe it will be more effective to split out the project
stuff and have #ubuntu-women-project. I believe it is harder to move
social/emotional discussion as doing so breaks the mood or potentially
hits nerves.
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+1 on making the new channel the project channel. For better or
worse, the current channel is what it is. Logging fundamentally
changes that and trying to move the current channel environment to
another space only seems to punish those who regularly hang out in the
current channel. I think (would hope) that anyone chatting in the
current channel recognizes it's a public space and thus no illusion of
safety, other than safety in numbers, is available. It's akin to
walking into a crowded coffee shop and asking for help and hoping a few
good people will assist you or seeing a table of your friends chatting
and you join them at their table but know the folks at the next table
can also hear you. If you want privacy beyond that, you move to
another space, you don't ask the whole room to move.<br>
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-1 on logging of the current channel, recognizing we can't control what
individuals do with any private logs they may take on their own.<br>
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Dinda<br>
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