Women and TLUG - a personal rant

[Howard Gibson]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:16:40 -0500
Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Last month Renata Rocha raised some very legit concerns regarding
> harassment at GTALug meetings. While this isn't a direct tie into that,
> here is part of the issue :
> http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html .
> 
> Basically we as geeks tend to make social mistakes that are ... different
> from, but in some way just as serious (or arguably more serious) than
> "mainstream" groups. Bottom line, these are issues we need to be aware of,
> and from there we can start thinking about how to deal these said issues.
> 
> 
> Colin McGregor

Colin,

   As you may be aware, this is a HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux...

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

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