Re: [gnome-women] GNOME to Sponsor Female Developers in a Summer Outreach Program

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 23/06/2006, at 6:54 AM, Hanna M. Wallach wrote:

> Hi Clytie,
>
> > This is great! :)
>
> I'm glad you like it! :-)

I believe it's really important.
> > I've sent it to my son, and asked him to make sure all the female
> > students in his faculty know about it. He considers the proportion
> > of female students shockingly low, but it's a start...
>
> Wonderful -- thanks so much for doing that!

My pleasure. I've also introduced it at VNOSS (Vietnamese Open-source  
Software community), explaining it and stressing the opportunity. In  
that mail, I also offered to help them cross any communication or  
confidence barriers which they may find intimidating. Participation  
by Vietnamese women online is much worse even than the average: I  
have not yet met a single other Vietnamese woman who actually  
participates online. :(

I do know, though, that one or two lurk on the VNOSS list, and others  
have male family members there.

So I do hope for something from this. :)
> All the best,

To you, too, Hanna. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN