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Re: Not necessary
by Tom on Monday 25/Aug/2003, @16:02
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I agree that *in theory* it is an unecessary component. We shouldn't need to discriminate at all, not even positively. But the fact remains that there are very few women involved in KDE. There are many reasons for this, and none reflect poorly on the way that KDE welcomes contributions from women, but any initiative that can encourage women to actively contribute is worthwhile.
Why do we want more women participating? Well, KDE reflects the needs of its users, or rather the needs of the users that express their needs on bugzilla. If you don't have any women participating, from using bugzilla to coding DCOP, KDE will become increasingly male orientated and male dominated. That's not to say that women somehow how very different needs or tastes, but that you are excluding a large number of users, because you aren't making an effort to include them.
So promoting participation to women is a good thing, IMO. If there comes a time when we notice that there are very few elderly people using KDE, then it'd be a good idea to promote KDE to the elderly, concentrating on particular benefits they might find in KDE the product and KDE the community. And so on.
To me, Free Software is about *providing Freedom* to users, not just satisfying my own wants and building cool technology. |
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