“The top leader of Linuxchix resigned yesterday in the midst of
a controversy over her leadership style. In a statement released to
all Linuxchix mailing lists, coordinator Mary Gardiner said her
decision was a difficult one, but because of a ‘mismatch in goals,
LinuxChix should be run by someone with a better relationship with
its current (implicit) goals.’“Earlier yesterday, a group of LinuxChix volunteers posted a
letter to the community. ‘We are a group of volunteers of
LinuxChix, some of whom have been active parts of this community
since 2000 or earlier. We have been disturbed and dismayed by a
series of events that took place around the issue of the Linuxchix
IRC server. These events have broad implications for the governance
and future of Linuxchix…'”
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