On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Juan Carlos Gentile Fagundez jucar@hipatia.net wrote:
I'm very interested to understand more on the topic "women and free software in India"
As I could 'perceive' being in some events in India, the situation is a little bit terrible.
Women absolutely separated not to say 'segregated'
This is very true. This is very common in India especially in Kerala's "Progressive" society. ( I think you were in kerala most of the time) . Free software communities may inherit this problem because they are also part of the same patriarchal mail dominant society.
This gave me the impression that not being talking to a group of activists for freedom since women was outside.
Was that just my perception and impression?
Free Software Communities will not change everything suddenly top down. Also the celebrity called "hacker" in Free Software model is a Male . I dont think Free Software Philosophy is not a tool for addressing/ bridging gender inequality in society. It needs more women , who can understand womens issues need to come to free software front and need to address the issues that preventing their involvement. Also there are a lot of other factors need to be addressed. So lets finish is my point. Free Software is not that much radical to change all existing social structures.. It will change some. But not all.. For eg: It cant address oppressions of Caste , class & gender.
Freedom is not coming as a package. we need separate fights on each domains to claim it
Deepa Paul
regards juan
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