LinuxChix-India -- was-- Re: [Indianlc] hello people!

[Jhinuk Cchowdhury]

"Well without digressing from the issue at hand or getting into a flame
war, I would certainly like to see the TOI allocate more space for
articles/write-ups for Linux ... So if we have  journalists here
..that is half the battle won :-)"

Vidya am afraid no, it's still a long way to go. One newspapers do not have
much space, second, since TOI's readers aren't really aware of what FOSS is,
the paper is quite reluctant to take up the issue...plus of course (like any
commercial org), they see what value are they (TOI) getting in terms of ads
and revenue







On 12/15/05, || स्वक्ष || svaksha <svaksha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Fred and everyone else :-)
>
> On 12/15/05, Frederick Noronha < fred at bytesforall.org> wrote:
> > Hi All, I'm a guy, not a chix ;-)
>
> Hmm that was evident but thanks for being clear. i am Vidya aka
> "svaksha" online.
>
> > But you have my full support  in taking this idea forward. I'd like to
> help in any way, including putting you in touch with women members who I am
> in touch with in the user-groups (they are, alas, only a few).
>
> Thanks, there are many of us who lurk (i did too) and I hope this
> platform will grow to bring into it people from all backgrounds,
> irrespective of their gender, qualification, or other barriers society
> usually creates.  It will be nice to see this *team* (not group) of
> people grow to a large community.
>
>
> >
> > We can look forward to more involvement and participation from
> journalists like Jhinuk (ex-LFY, now Times of India, Bangalore).
> c
>
> >
> > Also, you'll are welcome to raise the issue of gender in IT in our
> BytesForAll network http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers
>
> Exactly, women are always accused of complaining and not doing
> anything.  Well for starters, we now have something at hand and it
> will be nice to have other ideas flowing in.
> It is well known that few women vocalize themselves publicly (for
> whatever reasons) although many women are in IT in India and use
> Linux.  Ideally, I would like to include people who are sitting on the
> fence, thinking if Linux is for them, or which distro to use and where
> to ask? We can create a space where women (& others too) can ask
> so-called silly questions, request for volunteers to help them out
> with their problems, and so on....
>
>
>
>
> >
> > I recently met Sulamita in Bangalore; it's always nice to meet up with
> Brazilians, who usually have both a good sense of humour and a positive
> attitude towards life ;-) Sulamita's talk at the Bangalore palace was good
> too. FN
>
> Yeah she is refreshingly pink ;-)
>
> ciao,
> --
> || स्वक्ष || svaksha
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