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request for a FAQ #29

Closed void-elf closed 9 years ago

void-elf commented 9 years ago

A question I get a lot is: why do you have some women-only events? Maybe we could make a FAQ and include an answer to that that in it?

evykassirer commented 9 years ago

Great idea :) we can link to some good articles regarding the issue too, if readers want to investigate further

ehashman commented 9 years ago

As briefly discussed earlier, this is an answer to one of those questions.

void-elf commented 9 years ago

I really like the reddit comment linked to above (especially since it has an explicit example of a type of event) and we should build upon it when writing the FAQ. I was hoping Geek Feminism would have a page explaining the motivation for women only events, but there isn't one yet.

"Why found a women geeks group" from here: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Founding_a_women_geeks_group has some good points we could add.

There are all the things I would have queried a FAQ for if one existed, but instead had to explicitly ask about:

ehashman commented 9 years ago

These are all fantastic ideas!

@ynasser, please feel free to submit a PR if you are interested. If you just want to keep giving us feedback though, that's also very appreciated! :)

ehashman commented 9 years ago

Addressed by #33, #46.