On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:23:48AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 07/31/2013 12:59 AM, jdow wrote: > > Andrew, one thing a woman needs to develop to survive in the technical > > fields is an incredibly thick skin. > > I know, and that's what needs to change or many of the best brains > will continue to move to jobs where a noisy minority can't get away > with being complete arseholes. (It's not just women who are abused, > of course.) Indeed! It is not just abuse, being civil is absolutely necessary for newcomers to feel welcome, ask questions (at times, possibly stupid ones), and in time contribute back. I started using *nix systems rather recently compared to many of the old timers here. Over the years I became interested in quite a few FOSS projects, but surprise surprise, I have contributed actual code to only one: Org mode, a major mode for Emacs. Why? I attribute this to the friendliest and most welcoming developer community I have come across. My 2¢, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
