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  KDE-Women Relaunched
Community and Events Posted by Frauke Oster on Monday 25/Aug/2003, @11:46
from the katie-is-back dept.
The KDE-Women project was founded in 2001 as an international forum for women involved with or interested in KDE. It was originally intended to be a place where women could present their current contributions to KDE and where women who wished to contribute could find a starting point. That was the goal of KDE-Women then, and still is now. After a period of dormancy, the project has been relaunched in terms of a revamped website based on the new KDE design as well as fresh and updated content such as the tutorials and howto's and an article on Kontact.

In the events section you'll also find a listing of the newest events, such as the KDE Contributor's Conference 2003 currently taking place in Nove Hrady and the upcoming Informatica Feminale.

The KDE-Women are planning on adding a lot of new features and hope to find more women who want to contribute to KDE, and support the KDE-Women community. So be sure to visit the new website, and if you are a woman, feel free to join the KDE-Women community!

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A lot better!
by Alex on Monday 25/Aug/2003, @14:19
Whew, this is a lot better than before, and a nice site to visit even fi you'r not a woman. Now where's KDE MEN ;?

I'm happy that KDE's new design is slowly but steadily being adopted by more and more KDE websites, thiugh there still are a lot of old designs, like for the Events page and Kdevelop.
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Mmm, Don't know...
by Jan on Monday 25/Aug/2003, @15:06
...why this is necessary. We don't have KDE men, KDE blondes,
KDE Europeans, KDE aliens, etc either.
All are working on the same project. What has this to do
with if you have breasts or not?
Don't think this is really necessary, but well if they need it...
I'm off to the gym - I want to join too.
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Screenshots please
by frizzo on Monday 25/Aug/2003, @15:24
Screenshots please
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Not necessary
by Slovin on Monday 25/Aug/2003, @15:25
I agree that KDE-Women is an unnecessary component. It gives the impression that "women" are a special group of people with special needs when it comes to KDE. Well, they're not. We don't need segregation in KDE. Thank you.
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Is that KDE-Jewish Women?
by frizzo on Monday 25/Aug/2003, @15:25
???
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Hope
by Wurzelgeist on Monday 25/Aug/2003, @15:26
it will be more active than in the past. Yes, KDE Women is a nice project.
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silly
by AC on Tuesday 26/Aug/2003, @00:19
All I want to say is: some KDE people are really really silly.

If there is anything showing immaturity and utter geekmanifest in KDE, its nerds settings up a KDE woman corner. Go ahead, visit KDE woman and share your woman things there.. and when you have something, contact some KDE 'men'.

Consider this a bug report for some of my 'fellow' KDE 'men'.
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Necessary?
by Bojan on Tuesday 26/Aug/2003, @02:44
Why does every news about KDE women trigger a debate if this is necessary or not? It doesn't matter if it is necessary or not, it is already there. Obviously someone thought it's necessary.
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About the Kontact article
by Anonymous on Thursday 28/Aug/2003, @00:45
I misses to mention that there are also KNewsticker and KNode modules.
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Any evidence to support this?
by Amara on Monday 04/Sep/2006, @02:17
Does anyone have a link, or other evidence that this seeming divide of the community encourages more women to get involved? Any statistics?

IMO, it seemed that the aims of the FSF and projects like this are not only to develop great software, but also create a community, a united community. Not one where certain members belong to women.kde.org and certain members belong to asians.kde.org, russians.kde.org, pinksocks.kde.org and the rest go to community.kde.org.

I also don't see how this is much different from developer.kde.org. Apart from the sparse uses of the word "women" in a few places, theres no male-oriented content in developer.kde.org to make such a difference. Unless of course, women.kde.org exists just to make women developers feel better and "separated" from the rest of the "male macho" community, in which case its nothing serious and is fine.

Anyway, any evidence would be appreciated, I really am curious. :)
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