women, get into IT... or else [LWN.net]

women, get into IT... or else

Posted Sep 29, 2007 15:41 UTC (Sat) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: women, get into IT... or else by mattdm
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)

it's hard to suppress the "oh, that's so cute!" that seems to "naturally" arise for the socially correct play.

And exactly how should the free/open source software world solve this problem?

Bye,NAR

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Posted Sep 30, 2007 0:42 UTC (Sun) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (1 responses)

And exactly how should the free/open source software world solve this problem?

Simple. Be aware of your actions and words and how they impact other people.

Posted Sep 30, 2007 12:54 UTC (Sun) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

>Simple. Be aware of your actions and words and how they impact other people.

More importantly, realize that the other person is not the same as you.