[women-commits] [SCM] Repository for the Debian Women project branch, master, updated. bd308820cbe57b038a4b6260ffe01f7df2eb1d28

[Tássia Camões Araújo]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 3a5670e6bb52b4d173dac00222b319822a936ecd
Author: Tássia Camões Araújo <tassia at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri May 13 01:39:52 2011 -0300

    Removed "what can be found here" (the site should be self-explaining).
    Moved text of "Join us!" to the projects page, mentoring program.
    Moved some sentences from introductory paragraph to the list of actions.
    Rephrased last paragraph and called it "Women in FOSS".

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 <div class="align-right"><img src="../Pics/debian-women-logo.png" alt="Debian
 Women logo"></div>
 
-# About the Debian Women Project
+#About Debian Women
 
-##What can be found here
+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.
 
-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.
+Our main actions include the following:
 
-##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.
+* Providing mentoring programs;
+* Increasing the visibility of active women;
+* Creating opportunities for collaboration between new and current members of
+the Debian Project;
 * Actively encouraging and educating the Debian community to increase
-understanding of the specific issues facing women who wish to
-contribute more to Debian.
+understanding of the specific issues facing women who wish to contribute to
+Debian;
+* Organising BOFs (open discussions) at FOSS conferences to promote the debate
+of issues facing women and their involvement with Debian and GNU/Linux.
+* Giving talks at conferences, universities, LUGs and schools.
+* Running a [[mailing list and IRC channels|contact]] for discussion of related
+issues.
+
+We welcome the involvement of all people who are interested in increasing the
+participation of women in Debian.
 
-## Why are there so few women in the computer field / F/OSS
+##Women in FOSS##
 
-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/).
+There are lots of theories regarding why there are so few women in computer
+field specially in the FOSS world. Ellen Spertus explains some of the cultural
+phenomena that might be the cause for this in her paper [Why Are There So Few
+Female Computer
+Scientists?](http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pap/pap.html). It is also
+worth it to read Val Henson's [HOWTO Encourage Women in
+Linux](http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/).

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