-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Scott wrote: > While women tend to "get shit" in this fashion much more than men. It > does work both ways. Granted - there are many types of harassment, Caroline and I are using the ones that we've experienced, as an example. > So then, what happens if you end up at a developer summit or user > meeting and have to use your real name (for hotels perhaps)? I've done this. I ended up transitioning to using a real name, precisely because I was going, and I didn't want to be seen as the girlfriend of whichever people I was around (which has also happened - even if the guy i'm with is wearing a wedding ring, and i'm not). That way, fellow developers actually knew who I was - but I got far more response with saying that I was Hobbsee, rather than going by my given name. > And then there's the GPG issue. There apparently is no acceptable way > to get your key signed other than to lay eyes upon the person who will > be signing it and presenting your government-issued ID to said person. Also dealt with this one. No one tends to check the name on the GPG key much, except for signing it. If you have your alias on irc, don't show real names in mail, and don't have your real name on launchpad, no one really seems to care, or to know what your real name is. > Under ordinary online circumstances using a pseudonym is not something > you really have to think much about. I just do it. But when it comes to > something like the FLOSS community (be it Ubuntu, Fedora, FreeBSD, > Mandriva or Mozilla) then where does that leave you? In Ubuntu, you really don't *have* to use a real name. In some cases, it's helpful to, but still not forced. That being said, by keeping your real name publically private, only people that you "trust" tend to know about it anyway - which includes conference organisers, sponsors, etc. Hobbsee -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHv/mP7/o1b30rzoURAvITAJ0ToI6T56lxL9Uzj6pBGduR60ctLQCgnkyr nAsAGgN0RwYo47euNAhScyg= =RWoD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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