[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-women
Subject:    Re: [Kde-women]Article
From:       Eva Brucherseifer <eva () rt ! e-technik ! tu-darmstadt ! de>
Date:       2001-03-26 21:12:37
[Download RAW message or body]

Hi Annma,

> I need your help!
> I write an article about kde-women for the new project kde-Zine and I have
> a draft for the article. But it needs to be longer and ......I don't know
> what to add.

After the kdewomen announcement a guy from NewsForge had some questions about 
KDE-women. Maybe my answers give you some more ideas.

I don't know if the guy is gonna write another article, a short announcement 
with our text is at
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/03/19/1919209&mode=thread

When reading the comments at the dot and discussing with people at the 
Linuxtag in Chemnitz, at the CeBIT and in the chat, I had the feeling, that 
the people often think, that KDE-women wants to _help_ women - only women. It 
might be good to point out, that this is not the main aim of KDE-women.

Greetings,
eva


----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
Subject: Re: NewsForge reporter has questions
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:00:39 +0100
From: Eva Brucherseifer <eva@kde.org>
To: dantc@mailscc.com


Hi,

> I read your introduction announcement on 19 March. I'd like to do a short
> write-up of KDE-Women for NewsForge.com, and I was hoping you might answer
> a few questions:

great :-))

> - What does KDE-Women hope to accomplish?

First of all we want to get more women (or women at all) involved into the
development of KDE. Up to now there was only a low percentage (or per mille?)
of women in the KDE team and no female core developer. And the idea is not
only to get women to the "usual female" jobs like designers, documentation
writers, journalists, but into every part of KDE.

Ok, that was theory - what about practice: First of all there is planned to
have a variety of tutorials and information on the website, many more than
now.
Besides the web activities there is the mailing list and the chat to discuss
things. The project is very young so the things to happen are not at all
fixed. It pretty much depends on the women who will join and contribute.
Some possible topics are graphics, themes, user howtos, ... there is planned
to set up a TODO list very soon.

> - Programmers and developers have developed a somewhat sexist stereotype in
> the eyes of the media. Are women's contributions to Open Source code
> somehow discounted or taken at less than face value when male counterparts
> discover they're working with a woman?

No, I cannot confirm this.
Personally I have the opinion that men and women tend to do things in
different ways. That is why there easily can arise conflicts and women often
think they are not able to do things, because they would do them different
and don't understand the "male way".
So our idea is to have a female surrounding for doing things. And we'll
simply try if it works out.
Already now I like the social part a lot. We had two meetings in Germany so
far, there will be several exhibitions this year, and in the chat we often
talk about topics besides KDE. That makes it more interesting. And gives a
good atmosphere.

> - Are there any KDE development efforts underway where women are the
> exclusive or majority of the contributors?

Not as far as I know. Maybe we'll konquer one ;-) (just kidding)

> - Are there any similar Open Source projects around? Any in the works?

As far as I know there is no women project as a part of an Open Source
project. But there are a number of projects in the linux world that ar not
attached to a single bigger project. There is www.linuxchix.org and I know
about a german mailinglist. But I didn't do any further research yet.

> - Is there anything you think I should know about KDE-Women that I haven't
> asked?

The site is totally driven by women. And this is where the name comes from.
The project is _by_ women, but not _for_ women _only_ - it is for everybody.
This is ment as an addition to KDE, no seperation.
KDE wants to be a desktop for everybody and I think it only can gain from
female input.


I hope that is all. If there are more questions, feel free to ask.
eva

KDE Women
women.kde.org

-------------------------------------------------------

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]