On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 03:21:29AM -0700, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: > > I'd suggest, very strongly, as this has happened to me before in the > GNU/Linux community, that this happened because I used my real, female, > name. When I use my alias, iriXx, people assume I'm male, and I never > get these problems. The list where this happened, by the way, was > linux-audio-dev. > i highly recommend subscribing to the new chix list, although it was set up to help females begin with linux without the fear of some of the rude answers you can get from seasoned and busy developers -- and you received some very nice email from some of the very important developers here. it is always good, in any environment -- one you are being paid in and one you are volunteering in (it makes no difference) to see who is in charge and actually doing the work. then pay careful attention to their comments. i dont want to lose any savvy women from the community. there is somewhat of a pact, however, to use free software from the ground up. this is very difficult as well. the purists, like richard, stop before the pixels draw into the pictures your screen displays, because technically speaking, the X Server is not free. if you are going to "copyleft" something, and your page does not work in copyleft browsers, you are not helping. not a critism, a fact. the new chix list can be found at: http://www.linuxchix.org/ they can help you learn how to run free software. in that non-rude environment, please remember that there are several people on that list (like this one) who have been in "the design world" and "published authors" and writing computer software for a very very long time. show the respect that you would like to receive. you need to at least try to use free software first. please start over some and come back when you figure this free software stuff out. it is cool and fun, and i bet that you will start to be successful in many more things than just getting your computer to work in a copyleft sort of way. also, please consider that richard was flirting. it is free software so people contribute for different reasons other than financial. please maintain that relationship with richard. no one here wants to write to him anymore also .... carol
