[WFS-India] Fwd: [IndiChix] Poster Competition

[Jisha]

Definitely prefer this version, less negative, more encouraging :)

J


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Satabdi Das <satabdidas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Forwarding Svaksha's mail since she is not in our group (yet).
>
> Satabdi
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: स्वक्ष <svaksha at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [IndiChix] Poster Competition
> To: LinuxChix - India <indichix at linuxchix.org>
> Cc: techtalk at linuxchix.org
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:23 AM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
> > WFS India in collaboration with Glug-Cal, Fedora and Mozilla announces
> > a poster competition on women's, LGBT and gender-related issues in
> > India using free software tools as part of the extended Cultural
> > Freedom Day celebrations.
> >
> >
> > http://www.wfs-india.org/p/poster-competition-womens-and-lgbt-issues
>
> Hey, Where can I submit a patch for the "Background" section? I found
> the language quite brusque which wont help if we want to bridge the
> gap. Since it is about women, I am taking the liberty of providing a
> bug-fix below :)
>
> First a short note on why I'm rooting for a change: Like most Indian
> woman I too have experienced all the issues first-hand, written
> (erm..ranted on my blog and in IRL discussions) a lot on sexism and
> other issues we women face BUT all that has been limited to my blog or
> IRL discussions. When we are creating a poster to get more women and
> students involved in FOSS, it is easier to use language that is more
> professional and inviting. People respond better to politeness (I
> know, I do) than sarcasm and rudeness. We can speak the truth about
> women and LGBT in a friendlier, polite manner - the impact will be
> greater.
>
> That said, here is the patch (its not perfect, so feel free to bug-fix it):
>
> Background
>
> India being a multi-ethnic, multi-racial country, while coping with
> challenges of corruption and a billion (and growing) population is
> slowly coping with the silent half - women and the LGBT populace.
> India has a 5000-year history that straddles the the modern - the
> spectrum of a cell-phone totting farmer, a tweeting teenager, a
> technophile home-maker, an artistic designer, and half a billion more
> who are embracing technology in Planck time.
>
> And yet, this majority are still finding their voices in their
> struggle to retain their space while retaining basic human values
> within our society. Your challenge is to bring out your virtual
> brushes and paint away your thoughts that will pictorally depict this
> struggle while celebrating their diversity.
>
> Can you retain the essence of India's 5000-year history that straddles
> the modern world? Exercise your creative freedom with Free/Libre open
> source software and other technologies. Your poster may just be the
> inspiration that gives them a voice to fight for their rights, a
> vision of a better tomorrow, a tomorrow that has the freedom and space
> for their dreams while allowing them to remain rooted in the Indian
> ethos.
>
>
> </end-patch-for-Background-section-Poster-Competition-on-Women's-and-LGBT-Issues>
>
> If you have hosted the poster text on github (or any other dvcs),
> please point me to it so that I can make a pull request for the above.
> I just spent over an hour being creative in my editing (instead of the
> Julia workshop announcement) and its 3 am, so please be kind in your
> criticism. I have also tried to retain some text that talks about the
> social problems in a discreet manner - it alludes to problems that
> need solutions but does not explicitly describe it. In a country that
> struggles to keep the "girl child" in schools, its easy to scare them
> off with words like "sex education" - At some schools, parents would
> be up in arms over it.
>
> I also wish the rule #2 would be relaxed a bit. When I started
> volunteering in 2005 as a list-admin for two mailing lists at
> linuxchix.org, I was still using Windows on a partitioned drive. It
> took me a few months to ditch the dual-boot and switch over completely
> to Ubuntu Linux. ...and I still have never used more than half the
> tools listed there. So yeah, I plead ignorance to the xcf and eps
> formats too.
>
> Hope you can consider some of my suggestions !
>
> Thank you !
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> svaksha ॥ http://svaksha.com ॥
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