At 10am PSt / 1pm EST / 8pm UTC/GMT on Monday I will be doing another live videocast, and this one is a really special one. That day, March 8th, is International Women’s Day and the Ubuntu Women team have been running a competition to gather a wonderful collection of stories about how women discovered Ubuntu. I have been given the honor of picking one of the two winners and the community has picked the other. The two winners will receive a fantastic collection of prizes.
I want to thank all of the awesome entries to the competition and thanks to the Ubuntu Women team for asking me to participate and share the winners. I look forward to see you all then! 🙂
It is that Ubuntu is only for men? I do not understand this type of movements, and I seem to discrimination for the men.
And about http://ubuntu-women.org/faq.html : If only 1.5% are women is because they aren’t interested in FOSS as the men. This is because are less women who prefer informatic-related works.
Thanks for listening.
A lot of people have your response, Ubuntu men. The reason the Ubuntu Women project exists is to provide a body of work to encourage women to join our community, it does not discriminate against men at all.
Just because a group exists to raise awareness and encourage a particular demographic, does not mean it by definition discriminates against another group. As an example, we have a global collection of LoCo teams, just because the Ubuntu France LoCo team exists doesn’t mean that it is discriminating people from other countries to join: it is just optimizing the ramp for French people.
For a long time now it has been acknowledged that some women have had a tough ride getting involved in Open Source, and the Ubuntu Women team is there to help bridge the gap and provide inspiration and and help for women in joining us.
Well said Jono!
My wife loves these kinds of movements, she is very aware of the difficulties women go trough day after day, especially on FOSS.