[IndiChix] Chapter Name suggestions

[Hassath]

Hi.

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Aneesha Govil <popcorn09 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Yes, I mind being called a chick of any kind. Yes, I joined linuxchix
>  after a lot of nudging from couple of friends but no, I do not like
>  the name.

Ok.

>  That being said, I think many of us would not feel comfortable going
>  to conservative women's colleges and try to convince them to be
>  linux"chix" when we ourselves do not like being called "chix". I won't
>  go to my own college and evangelize it either simply because I know my
>  college and people there and how seriously they would (not) take it.


I'm glad you've said this. At least you have put forward clearly why
you think it should be changed.

Unfortunately, unless we can think of an entirely meaningless or very
boring name (Society for the Technical Advancement of Women interested
in Linux?), there is a very real possibility that it will offend
someone, or be otherwise unacceptable.
Someone from North East India might have much more trouble with the
'India' part of our name than with the 'chix'.
A Sanskritised name might well put off many other communities in this country.
Surely we can't change our name every time someone is offended?

>  And yes, it may be about mindsets but I am not here to change the
>  mindset of people, I am simply here to evangelize FOSS and Linux. It
>  is as simple as that.

Alas, the more you speak to different kinds of people, the less simple
it becomes. What we want to achieve may be simple, but the way to it
is not necessarily so.

-- 
- Hassath