[Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Clarification: even though I forwarded this to the list as part of my
>> > role as co-webmaster of haifux, and as a service to the community, I
>> > strongly join guy's view, and more:
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>> > Please do not embarrass Haifux/Linux-il by declaring yourselves as
>> > members, when taking part in a stereotypic low-denominator TV program.
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>> I suppose you don't expect pretty young girls to use Linux. So I guess
>> you think the men who use Linux are all geeks?
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> I think there are many geeks (and I do not mean "hnoonim"=socially
> challenged , but people who are autodidact, keen on technology/science, have
> a lot of enthusiasm and proud of it) in the FOSS community, both male and
> female. I doubt the production was looking for the females, though, when
> they asked me to forward this.

I think this list is at least 90% men.  And the Hebrew word for geeks
is חנונים...

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