[Noisebridge-discuss] common courtesy: logging into wiki / not editing user pages

[Dr. Jesus]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:34 PM, rachel lyra hospodar
<rachel at mediumreality.com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i am going to chime in here to thank jason for publicly & politely
> calling out a really important issue.
>
> Noisebridge is a huge sausage fest, ie there are many more men than
> women that use the space.  Technology itself can be something of a
> sausage fest, with lots of dissenting opinions on why that is.  Research
> generally indicates that this is because of discrimination and
> unfriendly environments.  IE, it sucks getting a million sausages waved
> at you if you are a vegetarian, or just not hungry.
>
> LET'S NOT PERPETUATE THAT SHITTY SITUATION.  Many women I have talked to
> at Noisebridge have observed a phenomenon much like slow zombies when
> someone with brains has entered a room: the sausages lumber over to
> congregate around the lone rutabaga and say something witty like "so,
> you appear to be female."  These sausage zombies standing in between an
> unwitting hacker and her tools are an obstacle to hacking.

On the much less serious topic of sausage zombies:

  http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Sausage-Zombie/