[CREATE] "Reclaim your tools". A film by Jakub Szypulka

[ginger coons]

a) Lovely film. The music is awesome and the whole thing is just plain
beautiful.
b) Yes, there are, indeed, two women in the whole two minutes of the film
and they're not the focus of the shots in which they appear. They're
scenery.
c) Does that actually matter? (see next point for why it might not)
d) This is not the only video documentation of LGM 2010. In fact, in Kaveh's
documentation of talks (http://river-valley.tv/conferences/lgm-2010), there
are lots of women represented. Not only are they represented, they're
represented as active and valued members of the community who are having
their voices heard. There are 9 women represented in talks on page one of
the River Valley archive alone and more on the next page. There are a
further 3 represented in the Constant Active Archives documentation (
http://activearchives.org/aa/qna/Libre_Graphics_Meeting/). And they are,
once again, represented as active participants whose opinions and views
matter and are listened to.
e) We're still way ahead of a lot of other F/LOSS events in terms of
straight-up, ratio-based representation (never mind the subjective value of
different kinds of participation and representation, which is a whole other,
very long discussion).
f) Every year, we do better. <anecdote> From my first LGM (Montreal, 2007)
to now, there have been huge changes in terms of the number of women
attending, participating and talking. The event feels more and more
inclusive every time, which is great. It's a far cry from what I perceived
when I walked into the lecture hall at the Polytechnique and saw what
appeared to be a hundred or so men and maybe two women. </anecdote>
g) +1 on Prokoudine's point. Maybe looking at the ratio is a bit of a brute
force type of tactic which really doesn't necessarily take into account the
actual impact of women in the event and the community.

-ginger

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <
alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/12/11, Jakub Szypulka wrote:
>
> > to happen. I assure you that it will not be the case in the next LGM.
> > (given that there will be women to film ;)
>
> Last time in Montreal the ratio was maybe 1:10 as in women:men. It's
> up to you to decide if you go for proportional approach :)
>
> Alexandre Prokoudine
> http://libregraphicsworld.org
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