Good luck
Good luck
Posted Oct 1, 2007 5:16 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Starting a women-focused group by SelenaDeckelmann
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)
Wish you success - if you'll succeed it'll be sample which can be pointed out as "you don't need to tolerate jerks and misogynists to achieve success". Just don't forget that for most men "creation of place where both women and men can participate equally and where women do not feel ostracized" is not a success by itself (you successfully created yet another way to waste time? congratulations! we sooo don't need this). Something used by all major distributions or something touted as "major new feature" in one of them - this will be a success...
P.S. May be "just" 200% increase in number of Linux desktops in area can be considered success (but here I'm not sure: since it does not have global impact it's easy to say that such increase was a reason why your group survived, not a consequence of it's existence).