[IndiChix] Rough draft of the story

[Vid Ayer]

On Jan 18, 2008 5:08 PM, Balanarayan NT <nt.balanarayan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Vidya told me to post the fnal article on IndiChix Bangalore meet before it
> goes for print. Here is the rough draft. Please take a look and let me know
> if any one has problem with any quote
>
> BELOW IS THE ARTICLE
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>
> All of us have a role model who have inspired us with their lives or
> teachings. So who can a woman look up to as a role model, a guide, need it
> be a person at all? Well no, according to IndiChix  a group of free software
> users and developers who have taken up Linux, the popular free operating
> system as their guide.
> The group has been around for a while and they have finally decide to meet
> up on Saturday to plan their activities in Bangalore. Vidya Ayer, one of the
> organisers of the meet was quite exited about the meet. "The main agenda of

please change the word "organisers" to "volunteer" (as in not paid to
do free software work), huge difference that :)


> the meet is to chalk out plans,tasks and activities of the  community in
> Bangalore," she said. It's about women coming together to broaden the reach
> of Linux and GPL while learning from each other in the process. "We try to

Free/Libre Software is all about contributing technically to the
community, so part of our effort is to metamorphise users into
contributors by giving back code, artwork, documentation, etc.... to
the FLOSS community.

> help people learn and understand Linux but what distinguishes us fro the
> rest out there is that we are gender sensitive," says Vincent Vikram another
> volunteer in the community.
> So what inspired people to join this community over other Linux communities,
> it can't be just the gender sensitivity can it? No according to Vidya it's
> much more. "It is the difficulty in learning linux coupled with the rude
> attitude one finds in most Linux communities that inspired this community,"

Its Free/Libre Software community in general, not Linux per se .

> she adds. Indichix is a part of LinuxChix, which is an international
> organisation of free software users. LinuxChix is now many things to many
> people, but it remains primarily a group for supporting women in computing,
> specifically in Open Source/Free Software/Software Libre computing. The
> community which was formed in 1999 has 15 active regional centres as of now,
> IndiChix being one of them. Founder of LinuxChix Deb Richardson described it
> as an alternative to the "locker room atmosphere" found in some online
> technical forums and gave LinuxChix two core rules: "be polite" and "be
> helpful".
> The meet is planned to be at 3 pm in Christ College, Block 2 and is being
> organised in association with Computer Science department of
> Christ College. In Linux typing MAN on the command line brings up the help
> menu maybe with organisations like these around even WOMAN will find the
> help menu!

Great, Thanks for the draft Balu.
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Vid