http://women.kde.org/events/linuxtag2001/index.html

• [OT] women.kde.org by Yama on Saturday 23/Jun/2001, @10:46

  Why no men.kde.org? I thought the Internet was The Great Equaliser?

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• Re: [OT] women.kde.org by nervlord on Saturday 23/Jun/2001, @11:49

  you forget man, basically its ok for woman to have advantages, just not men (yep, its fucked, as ive said all along, there should be no advantages for anyone regardless of sex, race age or anything else, then again, also no disadvantages for anyone except disabled people, but ofcourse: that would be fair, so ofcourse it wont happen

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• Re: [OT] women.kde.org by nervlord on Saturday 23/Jun/2001, @11:51

  oops my above msg makes it look like im saiyng disabled peopel should be disadvantaged i meant they should be the only people getting any advantages at all

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• Re: [OT] women.kde.org by Rob Kaper on Saturday 23/Jun/2001, @13:40

  > you forget man, basically its ok for woman to > have advantages, just not men What advantage? KDE-Women is a group of (female) KDE developers and users joined efforts to increase visibility of the female developer and user base of KDE and lower the entrance level, which is something I can fully understand in the tech culture which unfortunately still is predominantly male. You could even argue that in such a culture women are actually disadvantaged. KDE-Women also happens to keep track of KDE related events and they have some other projects as well. I bet that if you seriously started a project to have lots of software for KDE aimed at children (both educational and games) you could get kids.kde.org to promote your project. Of course noone would even think "those damn kids, why kids.kde.org, there is no grownups.kde.org!". Or perhaps someone would like to have 3rd-world.kde.org to donate hardware with KDE preinstalled to third world countries in Africa, Asia and South America. You wouldn't mention a lack of rich-people.kde.org either.

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• Re: [OT] women.kde.org by nervlord on Saturday 23/Jun/2001, @14:41

  i was talking about in general its more than ok for there to be a woman.kde.org site, thats killer, means more linux users who are female, which is also good i meant in general

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• Re: [OT] women.kde.org by Chris Bordeman on Wednesday 27/Jun/2001, @23:46

  Except for one glaring inconsistency: KDE is not aimed at men, but children's progs are aimed at kids! If there are fewer women in programming, it is because women are less wired towards the technical than men, and please don't tell me there is no difference between man and woman brains. All this 'situational equality' crap ignores the huge and well documented differences in chemical, physical, and genetic makeups between races, sexes, etc. That is why we have the freedom to pursue, not the freedom to have.

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• Re: [OT] women.kde.org by JK on Monday 30/Jul/2001, @08:25

  Of course there is a difference between a mans brain and a womans - But saying Women are less wired toward the technical is rubbish. Women are not encouraged as much as men to take a technical route. I found at school and in college all the attention and praise in technical classes was heaped on to the boys, where the girls were looked at with a "well, we won't expect much" attitude. If you treat people like that, they go a different route. And your statement makes me sound like a freak for being a technical female. Thanks.

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• Re: [OT] women.kde.org by Chris Bordeman on Monday 30/Jul/2001, @10:10

  You're just wrong. The differences between man and woman brains are much more pronounced than the feminazis would like you to think. Of course this doesn't mean women are bad at math, just means that women are considerably less likely to be interested in it. And you're not a freak, nerd girls are really cool!

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• Re: KDE Plans Large Presence at LinuxTag 2001 by Tackat on Saturday 23/Jun/2001, @04:36

  Judging from http://www.linuxtag.org/2001/deutsch/showitem.php3?item=163&lang=en "Since the first LinuxTag in 1996--an evening devoted to GNU/Linux at the University of Kaiserslautern, attended by 70 visitors--the event has grown exponentially." it was one day when it started and although later it lasted for several days it kept its name. Tackat

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• Re: KDE Plans Large Presence at LinuxTag 2001 by Stormie on Monday 25/Jun/2001, @13:22

  Maths problem for anyone interested: Given that LinuxTag was 1 day long in 1996, and is 3 days long in 2001; and given that this growth is exponential; in which year will LinuxTag grow to be 366 days long and start to overlap the NEXT year's LinuxTag. Answers on a postcard, please.

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• London Linux Tag, URL? by Matthias Lange on Saturday 23/Jun/2001, @08:32

  Hmmm, this might get more expensive, but it sound interesting. Does anyone have an url at hand for this? Since a flight from Luebeck/Germany to London has about the same price as a rail ticket to LinuxTag/Stuttgart, this could be an alternative...

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• Re: London Linux Tag, URL? by Tim Colgate on Sunday 24/Jun/2001, @15:29

  More info on the UK Linux expo is at http://www.linuxexpo.co.uk/index/ However note that: > Sorry, we regret that we cannot accommodate Students or Under 18's

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• Re: London Linux Tag, URL? by Jono Bacon on Sunday 24/Jun/2001, @19:19

  I am running the KDE booth at the London Linux Expo and the Birmingham Linux Expo in September. We will be there with info on KDE, a few presentations and more. Come along and see is if you can. :-)

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• Re: KDE Plans Large Presence at LinuxTag 2001 by Baptiste Malguy on Saturday 23/Jun/2001, @09:13

  There's also the Libre Software Meeting (LSM) at Bordeaux from the 4th to the 8th of July, France. That's a real free events, as computers companies doesn't sponsor this event and we don't have to say "thx ibm", "thx compaq" ... The LSM website: http://lsm.abul.org

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• Re: KDE Plans Large Presence at LinuxTag 2001 by Tackat on Saturday 23/Jun/2001, @10:56

  Well, LinuxTag doesn't cost us anything either - except for promotional articles, hardware and stuff like that (which will be paid by the KDE-League). The furniture and the boothspace is free at linuxtag and the people who have been organizing LinuxTag have been doing so in their spare-time.

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• Re: KDE Plans Large Presence at LinuxTag 2001 by Richard Moore on Saturday 23/Jun/2001, @12:38

  I believe Jono will be attending this, it's possible I might be able to make it too. We'll also be having a presence at the Birmingham Expo in September. I'll be posting a story explaining what we'll be doing at the Birmingham expo (papers, a booth etc.) early next week. Rich.

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• Re: Linus at the KDE Booth by Tackat on Saturday 23/Jun/2001, @15:07

  It's a photo from LinuxWorldExpo 2000 in Frankfurt. On the photo you can see Martin and Ralf presenting the Final Beta of KDE 2.0 to Linus. Greetings, Tackat

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