Comments on: Stormy’s update: Week of September 14th and 21st

By: Raptor 7

Raptor 7 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:08:03 +0000

got it. thanks for the clarification.
also thank you for using the words “Free Software”

By: stormy

stormy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:20:11 +0000

Thanks, Donald! I will pass on your offer to the sys admin team and hopefully you will hear from them soon!

By: stormy

stormy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:17:48 +0000

I don’t discriminate against men in free software. Like I said, I’ve found most of them to be extremely supportive.

By: stormy

stormy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:16:57 +0000

I’ve found the men in the free software world to be the biggest supporters of women in open source software. I wouldn’t be here without them!

By: PITA

PITA — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:12:21 +0000

But seriously – don’t discriminate on the majority because of a few “Are you a girl?!? I don’t believe you, send me a picture? Send me a naked picture? Can I see your… What do you mean no?!? You belong in the kitchen!!!” people.

By: Raptor 7

Raptor 7 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:53:40 +0000

hope you are not blaming the other 98.5% for the lack of women….. because some women in the community do that, and they have been in the community for a long time, did nothing to *improve* the situation but every time they got the opportunity they bitch about how hard if *was* for them when they were getting started in the industry. Also some how some of the women in the community think they have the authority on anything female. (e.g.: in a drupal conference the dupal…organizer..person who’s a female (not the D7 project/release manager she’s cool) said “don’t do it… because I said so” about a design that include a female figure. Is this feminism gone wrong or was she just stupid? Just because they happen to be a woman don’t try to control `everything female`.

By: Donald Lobo

Donald Lobo — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:19:02 +0000

We’d be happy to help and assist the GNOME foundation with the CiviCRM implementation I’m the CiviCRM lead developer and we definitely would like to see you’ll use the software effectively
You can contact us on IRC / forums (http://forum.civicrm.org/). We did note a GNOME developer asking questions on the CiviCRM channel (we were offline at that time, but a few community folks took care of him
lobo

By: stormy

stormy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:53:10 +0000

I won’t be at OLF but we’d love to have you as part of the marketing
hackfest. I’ll keep you posted.

By: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:46:26 +0000

Hey Stormy,
Two things – first, sorry you had the flood of negativity earlier, but I think moderating rather than turning off comments is the right way to go. I mean, if you turn off feedback, the trolls win. By moderating, the trolls lose all incentive. It’s your site, there’s no shame in having strict rules (or even loose rules) about what’s published and what’s not.
Also interested in the GNOME Marketing Hackfest. Any chance you’ll be at OLF this October? I think (at Emma’s suggestion) we’ll be organizing a marketing BoF or the like…

By: Chris Crisafulli

Chris Crisafulli — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:24:14 +0000

Stormy,
Thanks for taking the time to keep all of us up to speed on what you and the Gnome foundation are up to. Don’t get discouraged by the comments, and keep up the great work!!! A lot of us seriously appreciate it!
Chris