Sad MCPs in Free Software circles [was Re: [Sderby] Helen, please come]

[Andy Smith]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:55:57PM +0000, Richard Smedley wrote:
> I have no idea how well you know the two women to whom you
> are referring, nor whether they'd find your comments funny -
> I will assume that that is how you meant them to be - but I will
> say that if my daughters, or any of their friends, had read them while
> considering coming to a LUG meeting they would most certainly
> have been put off wasting their time with it. As would most of the
> female hackers with whom I have worked in the past decade.

I'm glad someone else brought this up because sadly this thread was
becoming a poster child example of how not to encourage women to
come to LUG meetings.

Full agreement with everything Richard says here.

Cheers,
Andy
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