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

Fri Jun 7 13:18:10 UTC 2013

/me really happy to see that there is some debate on the background section.

Greetings from Venezuela.

2013/6/7 Jisha <bakshree at gmail.com>

> Definitely prefer this version, less negative, more encouraging :)
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> J
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> 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 !
>> --
>> svaksha ॥ http://svaksha.com ॥
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