[Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

[Tony Godshall]

>> (grandma can use it) rule .
>
> Can we please stop using "grandma" as the canonical non-technical user?
>  The gender and age prejudice implicit in these statements only hurts
> efforts to build a diverse development community (and makes the
> community look like thoughtless jerks).
>
> If you don't personally know any technically competent older women (or
> younger women, who may one day become "grandma"s themselves, without
> losing any of their technical chops), i recommend getting to know more
> people out of your own age/gender bracket (i'm assuming from the name in
> your e-mail that you identify as male).
>
> Technically competent older women (some of whom are indeed grandmothers)
> are not unicorns, but I wouldn't blame any of them for not wanting to
> collaborate with a project that sees them only as "grandma".

Yes, do please stop.

My great aunt, who passed away last month, was a
computer programmer for a couple of decades after
teaching for 30 years.

T