Re: To Murray



On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 09:55 -0600, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > there is a secret group of insanely hot female hackers who promise an
> > endless supply of insatiable carnal lust for anyone who hacks on C++
> > wrappers for C libraries. Murray has an inside link there, and it seems
> > to keep him motivated.
> 
> Paul,
> I realize that this was a joke, but I'd hate for comments like this to
> discourage contributions to gtkmm from women.  Open-source projects
> already have a reputation as a overly male-dominated field, and I'd
> hate it if women felt uncomfortable joining this and other projects
> I'm associated with.  I know it wasn't your intention to make anybody
> feel unwelcome, but these sorts of comments often have that effect...

absolutely, and i apologize.

i also need to post a correction, based on some further research. the
group of insanely hot hackers appear to actually be a series of male
mid-level IT managers at a number of Fortune 500 companies who pose as
women online! apparently, this works because there is a majority
heterosexual male single lonely troglodytic pale skinned basement
dwelling population in the open source development community. those
devious, wiley managers! this is how they motivate us? i'd always
thought murray was smart, but i must admit that i am nervous that once
he finds this out, the forward motion of gtkmm might stop. so could you
keep it quiet for now? thanks. 

:))

--p





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