from the 14-scholarships-should-be-enough-for-the-WHOLE-WORLD! dept.
Larry Cafiero aka Larry the Free Software Guy reports via FOSS Force:
You've been using Linux for some time and have been thinking, "Gee, I wish I could make a living with Linux."
[...]Fourteen of you--who can demonstrate the greatest need and best illustrate what a Linux career means to you--will be awarded training scholarships [says the Linux Foundation.]
"We're looking for individuals in seven different categories who want to contribute to the advancement of the Linux operating system and help influence its future."
[...]The Linux Foundation Training Scholarships will cover the expenses for one class to be chosen by each recipient from the Scholarship Track choices. Winners in all categories may also elect to take a Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator or Linux Foundation Certified Engineer exam at no cost following the completion of their training course.
The Linux Foundation this year is offering two scholarships in each of the following seven categories:
- Linux Newbies
- Teens-in-Training
- Whiz Kids
- Women in Linux
- SysAdmin Super Stars
- Developer Do-Gooder
- Linux Kernel Guru
The deadline to submit applications is July 10.
Original Submission
(Score: 4, Insightful) by cubancigar11 on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:09PM
Seriously? A scholarship for women in Linux? Because you are pretty sure there will be no women in other categories?
I am not sure if this positive sexism is helping women or not, but it is definitely harming men.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:17PM
The term to describe this is "benevolent sexism".
It's one of the many results of gynocentric movements.
Feminism jumped the shark when they started pulling the white feather shit, now feminists aren't even trying to hide that their sole focus is gynocentrism.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:35PM
Feminism jumped the shark when they started pulling the white feather shit
wikipedia:
A white feather has been a traditional symbol of cowardice, used and recognised especially within the British Army and in countries associated with the British Empire since the 18th century, especially by far-right nationalists and early feminists in order to humiliate men who were not soldiers.
are you saying feminism "jumped the shark" in the 1700s?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:55PM
>are you saying feminism "jumped the shark" in the 1700s?
Did I mince my words?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @08:53PM
>are you saying feminism "jumped the shark" in the 1700s?
Did I mince my words?
No, you mangled them. Lack of linguistic ability is a common side effect of excess maleness, as well as a lack of intelligence and ungrounded misogynist paranoia. Get help while you still can!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @08:58PM
no but I thought I noticed a stutter, my mistake.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:33PM
Get a grip. Everyone knows women are under represented in IT.
A more balance workforce would be a good thing, diversity is a strength.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:37PM
Dude, there is in STEM. You can't grow grow a forest from one seed no matter how fertile the ground is. If women aren't coming to STEM maybe because they are smarter and know that they have far more career options open to them than men. [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @05:29PM
Nice sexism against men, there. Just because men might have different priorities doesn't make them less smart.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @08:22AM
Just because men might have different priorities doesn't make them less smart.
Um, yes it does. Especially when those priorities are sports and auto-flagellation.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:38PM
Everybody knows that white people are under represented in the NBA too. Diversity is a strength and all that...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @01:11AM
Are you implying that women arent capable of performing IT jobs on a par with men ?
Like i said, get a grip.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday June 22 2015, @06:19AM
Are you saying white people are not good enough to play basketball?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @12:57PM
As a generalization i would say basketball is more about nature than nurture, and white people are at a disadvantage.
I.T. is about nuture, not nature, so a stereotypical women should be able to "compete" with a sterotypical male.
Get a grip
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday June 22 2015, @05:49PM
I am sorry but you are sounding more and more like a really bad sexist, but in a positively feminist way - you know - the way that is politically correct.
Women are by large the biggest perpetrators of child abuse. In east as well as west. To say 'nurture' is a feminine forte is exactly what the feminists fought before it became a Hillary Clinton issue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @03:24AM
I think you should re-read what i said, i dont know how you got from there to where you are.
(Score: 4, Informative) by cubancigar11 on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:38PM
Dude, there is 200% positive bias for women as compared to men [youtube.com] in STEM. You can't grow grow a forest from one seed no matter how fertile the ground is. If women aren't coming to STEM maybe because they are smarter and know that they have far more career options open to them than men.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @01:05AM
"If women aren't coming to STEM maybe because they are smarter and know that they have far more career options open to them than men."
Or maybe its because of the attitude of people who work in the industry, as demostrated in this thread
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday June 22 2015, @06:17AM
If attitude of industry was knowable before coming to the industry most of us won't be here.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @05:06PM
LOL, there were 7 categories for scholarships and the only one that drew comments was "Women in Linux".
What about Teens-in-Training and Whiz Kids? Doesn't that show ageism?
Seems the knee is only conditioned to jerk in response to very specific stimulus.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Sunday June 21 2015, @07:48PM
There is a constant movement to put technology in the hands of younger and younger population because it is assumed in society that children are more creative. A narrative exists in the geek culture that "technology will solve problems no one has ever been able to solve" - heck - the tech industry is built on selling this dream to government. That is not ageism, ageism is not hiring old people because they know their worth in proving this dream and thus are costly, while teens can be exploited - which results in jobs drying up as you go over 40. You have to really shoehorn ageism in saying that children need to be taught. And a tad bit male chauvinist to believe that women need help because they are children in front of 'men'.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @04:36AM
No, those show an interest in the current generation educating the next generation.
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:38PM
Seriously? A scholarship for women in Linux?
Well, acclimation is the first step. The next is getting Linux in women...
(Score: 4, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:27PM
You've been using Linux for some time and have been thinking, "Gee, I wish I could make a living with Linux."
Have I? It's news to me. Maybe I've been thinking it without realising.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @08:07PM
"Gee, I wish I could make a living with Linux"
I don't much linux but "gee" did it save alot of time!
one linux install (and a bit of clicking around and learning) in time equals about 5 virus and 3 trojan liberation missions on ...a ... nother ... : )
(Score: 1) by convolvatron on Monday June 22 2015, @01:56AM
how does that work? they offer classes in that? do i have to be a kernel guru already?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @08:14AM
Well, you have to teach Hinduism or Buddhism to the set of vectors that get mapped to zero by a linear map.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @05:13PM
Wow!
What a huugeeee incentive. ONE class.
and the Woman category?
If I dress in panties does that count?
Just want to gag with all this women girly crap lately.