Re: [gnome-women] gnome women webpage

[Runa Bhattacharjee <runabh gmail com>]

বুধ, 2005-06-22 -র 00:14 -0400-এ, Hanna M. Wallach লিখেছিলেন:
> Hi Máirín, hi everyone!
> 
Hi everyone,

This is Runa from India. I am part of the bengali localisation team
(www.bengalinux.org) and have so far contributed to Gnome, Fedora, Xfce
and Mozilla l10n projects. I use either runa or runab on the irc. Came
across this forum a few days back and its really encouraging to see
women carving out a place for themselves and making their efforts
visible, as more often than not in techincal domains we are pushed back
as non-serious players inspite of noteworthy contributions.
> 
> > There have been ideas involving "making up" the foot, e.g. nail
> > polish, toe rings, lipstick, etc., and I think a lot of them could
> > be cute, but I'm worried about such logos conveying the wrong idea
> > about the project. We want to be taken seriously, bottom-line.
> 
> I very much agree with this. Projects aimed at getting more women
> involved in technology development are rarely taken seriously by the
> existing development community, whatever it may be, if there is too
> much emphasis on "cutesy" and stereotypically feminine logos etc. I'd
> like to think we're about breaking stereotypes, not reinforcing them!
> 

Perhaps a logo that doesnt really scream "we are females" and portrays
the fact that we are "professionals, know what we are doing and we r
good at it too" might help. 

just my 2 cents :)

regards

-- 
Runa Bhattacharjee <runabh gmail com>