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

Fri Jun 7 13:27:08 UTC 2013

I saw the discussion going on earlier, but was unable to participate
because of exams (which got over 2 hrs ago as a matter of fact *grin* )

The current background, while true, could be rephrased in a better way. We
in India know what we're talking about; we see the good parts and the bad
parts and can judge our merit in our own way. But looking at "Backward
country, illiteracy, human rights abuse' paints a hostile picture. This
event is meant for conditions to get better, let's start with being less
hostile...

Cheers
Bakshree :)

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:48 PM, María Leandro <tatica at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> /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 :)
>>
>> 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 !
>>> --
>>> svaksha ॥ http://svaksha.com ॥
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>>>
>>>
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