Re: HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux!

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On 5/30/07, प्रबीण ( ओपन ठिटो ) <prabingautam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+1

On 5/29/07, Rajesh Pandey <pandey.pandey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +1
>
> On 5/29/07, Bibek Paudel <eternalyouth@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 29, 3:10 pm, "Srishtee Gurung" <srish...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Yes, there are very less female participants in FOSS nepal. And we have
> > to
> > > make the environment very much appropriate for female participants. And
> > I
> > > can see that loads of male fossians(Nepali) attitudes that needs to be
> > > changed.  There are lot of great guys working very hard to establish
> > FOSS
> >
> > well, no offence intended, but what exactly does "loads of male
> > fossian attitudes that needs to be changed" mean?
> >
> > i think, we are already on the wrong track. Its not only in FOSS and
> > computer science, take any engineering subject, female participation
> > has been always low. And blaming *solely* the male attitudes for this
> > is the least likely method of improving it.
> >
> > No pun intended, but for guys, its always pain to be spending life in
> > a chick-less field. Given increased female participation and
> > enthusiasm, males would only be happy to welcome them gracefully.
> > After all, we still have the much cliched examples of the first ever
> > programmer (Lady Augusta Lovelace) and the developer of first ever
> > compiler for a computer programming language (Grace Murray Hopper)
> > being females, disproving any argument that female participation was
> > discouraged from the beginning. But in recent years, Computer Science
> > has the least number of females as compared to any other fields of
> > engineering.
> >
> > > movement in Nepal. And because of few "spoiled attitude" we do not want
> > > females to be discouraged.
> > >
> >
> > True. Noone wants. But again, what on earth are we to guess by "few
> > spoiled attitude" ? It would help if we started talking in clear,
> > binary terms.
> >
> > > Thank you for sending the article, hope it will be an eye opener for
> > most of
> > > the males and as well for females.
> >
> > Lack of spirited and proportionate female participation will only
> > deprive Computer Science of that "other" perspective, that "other"
> > side of seeing and developing things, that female perspective. It
> > would only be beneficial to all concerned, if this happens sooner, and
> > better if we ourselves could be part of that change. But lets stop the
> > blame game. Lets stop acting like bully males and bargaining females.
> > At least professionally.
> >
> > Yes, why not we start talking about it? There are some talks already
> > in world's most reputed educational and professional institutes about
> > female participation in our field. And there are some efforts and
> > special programs launched to encourage women in Computer Science. Lets
> > start something similar for our country as well.
> >
> >
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Prabin Gautam "ओपन ठिटो"
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