[Indianlc] LinuxChix numbers...

[Jyoti S]

Hi,
I am a new member and has been passive reader for all
these days.
Frederick I applaud your approach.

I have not seen many technical questions/problems
being posted in this forum.May-be functioning as a
user group with good technical answers could also help
people coming in for seeking help. 

As every member in the group has the opportuninty to
answer the query, if we could recognise the person who
has answered the most during the span of a month, we
can provide her with an "expert " or some suitable
title.

Or the person who has shared some idea or
implementation of a novel concept could also be
recognised in this forum.

How about extending these laurels to the corresponding
workplace/college where she gains some recoginition
and encouragement? That would pull in more numbers at
least out of curiosity - more members as well as
mentors,...





-Jyoti
--- Frederick Noronha <fred at gnNe9Q92iWGkdzwOF4ZBwXZfES-RJBMv0DfcW6whsJmJ3y_wkxeYrdQFePyqe2-TlzrCezbqp8Yu2Q.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

> Just a query from my end...
> 
> I guess we are all concerned about the low numbers
> of women in the
> world of GNU/Linux, and largely accept that this is
> a problem area.
> 
> If this is so, then do we have any plans to increase
> their numbers in
> the world of FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source
> Software).
> 
> When it comes to guys (I know hardly any young women
> who want to get
> into geekdom, except my daughter, who is seven years
> old and I'm
> trying to get her hooked onto kturtle... but don't
> know programming
> myself!) one thing that really works is mentoring.
> 
> Just down the road, in my village, I have superb
> GNU/Linux skills,
> coming from a 20-year-old, who was introduced to
> GNU/Linux simply by a
> word of encouragement from a common friend.
> Subsequently, I made it a
> point to hand over a number of mags, books, and
> software CDs, just for
> my young friend to play around with. He has shaped
> up well, and is
> among those who has tried out the most number of
> distros, can answer
> tech queries, and is overall confident.
> 
> I was wondering if the same approach would work with
> mentoring women,
> and wether this group feels it's worth to try
> building skills among
> women. While we need the numbers, we also need to
> start somewhere, and
> every single individual who has these skills does
> count.
> 
> What do the others see as a good way of building
> skills among women?
> More women role models would surely help. But then,
> we could also
> focus our campaigns on women's colleges, which are
> otherwise neglected
> in our campaigns.
> 
> Your suggestions please... Let's focus some of our
> attention on this
> issue, if the others agree. FN
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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