Re: [PLUG] Philly Linux Chix

[Chris Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org>]

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On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 11:40 PM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> Um. There's room for subgroups, don't'cha think? And intersecting
> groups? A whole Venn Diagram of Unix-like operating system interest
> groups?

Well there is theory and practice.  Just relaying how things went 
*wrong* in the transition from one to the other.

Besides the bad experience with one of these groups reducing the 
diversity of a really nice LUG, I'm not enthusiastic in general about 
user groups that discriminate based on gender, race, religion, etc.

I mean, how well would it go over with the community if the guys 
started "Linux Dudez" (there is a more obvious play on Linux Chix that 
I'll leave to the imagination).

Creating a group based on such a criteria only serves to divide the 
community, not to unify.

> Exclusive, bah. Separate for interests or methods of expression
> common to the small group but distinct from the large, perhaps.

Separate but equal, then?
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