Women and TLUG - a personal rant

[Aruna Hewapathirane]

I am yet to attend a TLUG meet so can't really comment. I would like to
apologize to Renata though if anyone did make her feel uncomfortable. I
would put this down as a lesson learnt and experience gained but I would
not stay away, I would get involved and there are many other ways to do
exactly that :-)

Just a though about there being a 'derth' of women, we do have women and
kernel hackers at that, and this article by one of them who is a kernel
hacker may help:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/

This has a list as well of women in Linux:
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/women-in-linux/

This is the wiki for ubuntu-women:
http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/

There are two IRC channels as well:
#ubuntu-women <irc://irc.freenode.net:8001/#ubuntu-women> and
#ubuntu-women-project
<irc://irc.freenode.net:8001/#ubuntu-women-project>chats on
irc.freenode.net port 8001




On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Gordon Chillcott <gordontc-HLeSyJ3qPdM at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Renata definitely has a point.   And this has been discussed at more
> than a few of the executive meetings - those discussions were often led
> by Scott Sullivan, who is the current board chairman and president.
>
> That being said, the Code of Conduct really needs to be reviewed -
> especially on this matter.
>
> In the meantime, an idea came to mind:  There is often strength in
> numbers.   It might be an idea to recruit a group to attend a meeting en
> mass, so to speak.    It would be interesting to watch the reaction of
> the group.
>
> Mind you, you need to select a meeting with an interesting topic.   No
> sense putting in an appearance, only to be bored to death.
>
> Gordon
>
>
> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 13:55 -0500, David Mason wrote:
> > Thanks for the reminder.
> >
> > I don't attend that often, and unfortunately missed any meetings you -
> > or, to the best of my memory, *any* woman - attended.  As a professor
> > of computer science, I am appalled at the utter male domination of our
> > field, and appreciate being reminded of at least one of the factors
> > leading to the the dearth of women.  It behooves all of us to root out
> > misogyny wherever we see it!
> >
> > ../Dave
> >
> > On 9 December 2013 12:19, Renata Rocha <natzilla-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > > I like TLUG a lot, and used to attend the meetings. But you haven't
> > > seen me at the meetings in a while, and probably won't see me anytime
> > > soon.
> > >
> > > Some men who attend TLUG and we know who they are have a
> > > predatory/harassing behaviour when in presence of women. If you attend
> > > TLUG, have seen this happen and have ignored this behaviour of your
> > > colleague, you are enabling violence against women to keep happening
> > > at the TLUG environment, and keeping women away from the group.
> > >
> > > I have myself promised not to come back to the meetings while I see
> > > this kind of harassment in public being ignored, and the people who do
> > > it not held accountable for their actions.
> > >
> > > What you can do: talk to these members and make them at least
> > > apologize for their actions and make women feel safe and comfortable
> > > again at the TLUG meetings. I'd love to learn and hang out with you,
> > > but your environment is not welcoming for me and for other women in IT
> > > I know. We're in this for the same reason as everyone else - learning
> > > and sharing.
> > >
> > > (Yes yes I realize there's more than man/woman in the world, but for
> > > this case specifically I wanted to keep the universe limited. )
> > >
> > > Renata Rocha
> > > http://renata.org
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