[Gllug] Could you help me settle a debate

[Xander D Harkness]

The whole list is actually female; we masquerade as men so that we do 
not get the grief from people emailing us for photos.

:-)

kisses and hugs
Geraldine and Josephine



Davies Sue wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm not a geek (I'm not that clever) but I'm on the list and female.  There
> are 2 of us here doing mainframe and unix work but the other 7 in the team
> are men.  The proportion of women on the AIX list I subscribe to is very
> small.  I get the impression that this is a fairly normal state of affairs.
> 
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean S Wilson [mailto:dean.wilson3 at virgin.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 3:53 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Could you help me settle a debate
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Freeman" <freemadi at yahoo.co.uk>
> 
> 
>>Now whilst you don't really(well I don't) hear of many
>>female geeks in the hot seats for Linux there must be some out
>>
> there.
> 
>>So are there any high standing female hackers in the linux
>>
> communitee
> 
>>and also how many women are there on this list?
>>
> 
> There is a whole list of 'em, The Linux Chick(s|z).
> 
> I know that at least two GLLUG members have been to meetings with them
> and they have dealt with TV and print journalists so they are active
> on the advocacy front if not the coding one.
> 
> Other people I know of in the open source world include Deb Richardson
> of the Open Source Writers Group and Elaine Ashton from the Perl
> community who does an amazing amount of work with CPAN and the user
> groups and has rightfully won a white camel award for her efforts.
> 
>     Dean
> --
> Profanity is the one language all programmers understand.
>    ---  Anon
> 
> 
> 



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