Years ago, when I was a little junior Java programmer, the greybeards on my project thought it would be a great idea to put me on CSS because "women are good at making stuff look pretty." 🤢 I still pity the people who have to look at that website.
Just looking out over my coworking space full of bright educated people who are probably all using their talents to center divs for some multi billion corporation.
Think of all the divs we could collectively center. We could achieve centered divs in the Middle East. The global climate div would be solved. No more divs hunger or homeless divs.
Goodmorning lovely #fediverse friends. After having had my morning coffee and a few client calls I finally have time to say 2 things about last nights discussion on multilingualism:
1) why I *personally* don't see an issue with an English speaking server, but understand why it's important for others 2) more importantly, that this discussion highlights the need for a community governance initiative
I'm typing this out while at work so toots might take a while.
1) As someone who speaks a minority language (Dutch) in an international setting (Amsterdam), I'm used to solely speaking English at work, to my friends, online etc. I don't expect my South African, Turkish and Venezualan friends to speak Dutch, same as how my Indian colleagues don't expect me to speak Hindi. English is the bridge we all choose to walk when interacting with eachother. Speaking Dutch would mean excluding others.
@mairin I don't understand why this is such an issue. Fosstodon is an English speaking server, for moderation purposes. When signing up to this server you agree to this. There are plenty of multilingual servers, but you chose to join Fosstodon.
The reason that it's so pleasant here is because of the moderation. That moderation requires English, a) because translation services apparently aren't that great yet and more importantly b) the mods are only a small team of volunteers. I stand with @kev
Would anyone be interested in hearing about our #FOSS adventure? We''re a feminist non-profit in the midst of migrating from Windows to #Linux: servers and desktops! We try to be as #opensource as possible, for ethical, security and privacy reasons.
To be fair I'm doing a remote training Thursday to Sunday from 2pm until 23pm (New York based) and work in the mornings, so it was either this or 44 hrs of sitting. #treatyoself#wfh