Re: [oldboys] HAL

[Mathilde muPe <mupe@desk.nl>]

At 11:27 9-7-01 +0100, rachel baker wrote:
>   Anybody going to the Hackers At Large festival in  August?
>http://www.hal2001.org/   If I know there will be substantial female 
>representation I may be tempted,  self-congratulatory male geeks makes me
>feel queasy.   rachel 

These guys you are refering to are very gentle and open minded to humans.

But if you worry about standing out being the women in the crowd. Actualy I
will be present at Hal with my sub-event Power Pong (see also
http://www.xs4all.nl/~oertijd/ppong/ ). This installation is made with men
and women as user in mind. 

What I do want to say; if there will be a segregation of sexes in the
computer scene; We women have to inspect how we helped to accomplish this.
Being around this scene for more then a decade, I can testimony that those
male geeks are glad/reliefed if we women join their topics. Secondly 'guys'
boosting what they have done with system 'bla' while the others tops his
achivement with a story about system 'blib' is a very essential  exchange
mechanism of computer knowledge. And thirdly, guys showing of their
knowledge like peakon feathers, are most of the time 'not the best in the
class'.  

A bit longish answer, I hope it explains that women at Hal will be normal
human beings. If you are interested in the facts behind your daily computer
system; Consider going there and join the discussions i.r.l.

Mathilde muPe
  

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