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

[Gregory Pittman]

On 01/12/2011 09:13 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote:
> hi jake,
> well done on the film, nice to remember the event & also the locality in
> brussels :)
>
> i want to comment on the almost complete absence of women from the film.
> i'm sure this was not intentional, & i appreciate that the video is your
> individual perspective of the event rather than attempting to be
> representative. but it's disappointing that it perpetuates the image of
> open source as a boy's club. i know that many of you on this list don't
> percieve this as a problem; but i do. the women who attended, presented
> and did a significant amount of the organising of LGM have been excluded
> from the only publicly-available video documentation, giving the message
> to the outside world that only men are involved in LGM.

OTOH, if you check the LGM website, you will find many pictures of women 
who attended, and there are the publicly available videos of women who 
gave presentations, so I think your perception is inaccurate.

Greg