[women-commits] [SCM] Repository for the Debian Women project branch, master, updated. b816117ff5b959fb87188cc8f21c5233e181be20

[Mònica Ramírez Arceda]

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Author: Mònica Ramírez Arceda <monica at probeta.net>
Date:   Thu May 12 23:24:58 2011 +0200

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 # About the Debian Women Project
 
- <p>
-    The Debian Women project was founded in May 2004. We seek to balance
-    and diversify the Debian Project by actively engaging with interested
-    women and encouraging them to become more involved with Debian. We will
-    promote women's involvement in Debian by increasing the visibility of
-    active women, providing mentoring and role models, and creating
-    opportunities for collaboration with new and current members of the
-    Debian Project. We welcome the involvement of all people who are
-    interested in increasing the participation of women in Debian.
-</p>
- <p>
-    Our activities include the following:
-</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Running a <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-women" alt="mailing
-    	  list">mailing
-    	  list</a> for discussion of related issues.
- </li>
- <li>
-        Running an IRC channel for discussion of related issues, technical
-        questions and to allow women who are interested in contributing to
-        Debian to meet each other and some of Debian's current contributors.
-	See the <a href="http://women.debian.org/contact/" alt="contact">contact</a> page for
-	more information on our IRC channel.
- </li>
- <li>
-        Organising BOF discussions at Linux conferences, to promote
-        discussion of issues facing women and their involvement in Debian
-        and Linux.
- </li>
- <li>
-        Giving talks at conferences, universities, LUGs and schools.
- </li>
- <li>
-        Actively encouraging and educating the Debian community to increase
-        understanding of the specific issues facing women who wish to
-        contribute more to Debian.
- </li>
- </ul>
+##What can be found here
+
+This is the homepage of the Debian Women Project, a subproject of the [Debian
+Project](http://www.debian.org). If you want to know what we do, visit 
+[Projects](projects) section. If you want to know who the women behind the
+Debian Women project are, have a look at our [Profiles](profiles). 
+The [Press](press) section provides links to other publications about our 
+project.
+
+##Join us!
+
+If you are interested in joining the Debian project, there are many things you
+can do: you can be a Debian developer, maintainer, documenter or translator, or
+help us by testing and reporting bugs. You can also help us with this website!
+
+If you are now yet sure how to get
+started, maybe our Mentoring Program is something for you. You are also very
+welcome to join our own project! There are a lot of ways how to get involved.
+Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments!
+
+##The Debian Women Project
+
+The Debian Women project was founded in May 2004. We seek to balance
+and diversify the Debian Project by actively engaging with interested
+women and encouraging them to become more involved with Debian. We will
+promote women's involvement in Debian by increasing the visibility of
+active women, providing mentoring and role models, and creating
+opportunities for collaboration with new and current members of the
+Debian Project. We welcome the involvement of all people who are
+interested in increasing the participation of women in Debian.
+
+Our activities include the following:
+
+* Running a [http://lists.debian.org/debian-women](mailing list) for 
+discussion of related issues.
+* Running an IRC channel for discussion of related issues, technical
+questions and to allow women who are interested in contributing to
+Debian to meet each other and some of Debian's current contributors.
+See the [http://women.debian.org/contact/](contact) page for more 
+information on our IRC channel.
+* Organising BOF discussions at Linux conferences, to promote discussion 
+of issues facing women and their involvement in Debian and Linux.
+* Giving talks at conferences, universities, LUGs and schools.
+* Actively encouraging and educating the Debian community to increase
+understanding of the specific issues facing women who wish to
+contribute more to Debian.
+
+## Why are there so few women in the computer field / F/OSS
+
+There are a lot of theories about this, but no one can know for sure. 
+However, Ellen Spertus has a wonderful paper, 
+[Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?](http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pap/pap.html) 
+that will explain some of the cultural phenomena that might be a cause. 
+Also, please read Val Henson's 
+[HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux](http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/).

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