I nominate this for the new Ubuntu icon.

I’m not sure I like the use of common advertising propaganda (not-so-subliminal-message: get it and you’ll get pussy) for a software project. What’s more for a free software project.

Of course they could do the same thing with a male model as well. That would restore some equality. But would that be a good move just because it doesn’t discriminate? I’m not sure.

I’m not sure that this is appropriate for Planet GNOME.

–Jon

Batten down the hatches.

@ trommas

I actually consider myself a ‘Female Participation Advocate’, not a feminist.

This sort of behaviour does not advocate female participation at all. It *discourages* it :(

See iain’s comment for the basic impression it gives. Thank you, Iain :)

Please remove this, we don’t need and don’t want half-nude girls to promote free software.

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen

You do realise why linux-never-looked-this-good.de was taken down don’t you? (If not then pay archive.org a visit). Whilst I am all for freedom of expression I really don’t think this was appropriate for something appearing on Planet Ubuntu, which can be seen by many as an official Ubuntu/Canonical project (I know the actuality of this is under debate, but the assumption is still there).

Plus, I don’t think it’s fair on the model to imply that she has an STI.

Calm down folks, as you can see the picture was posted by mistake. And he apologized, that’s all that is needed. It’s just boobs, we will survive.

Not cool at all…

have some respecto for the ladies.

Cheers

Captain, I am detecting in this thread great quantities of
- hypocrisy
- people with low self esteem
- people who are unable to enjoy life
- false logic
- whining

@einalex

I really hope that despite your comment, you have a sense of ‘a time and a place for everything’.

If you do, you will of course understand that projects such as Ubuntu and GNOME — projects that already face the ‘too unprofessional’ tag due to the misunderstood collaborative nature — do not need to be associated with smut.

WOOW, She is so nice and her picture made my day happy.
To that ones who are against her picture as the way it is, I wish a low level format of his or her brain.

i guess all you whining ppl wear sandals with socks lol

What it regrettable is that people who comment apply nasty labels to this work. If a person wishes to pose in this fashion, and in these kinds of close, it should be no one’s business to denigrate her or him at all. I know that some do not see applying these labels as a form of denigration. However it most certainly is such. We in the alternative lifestyles, whether they are work lifestyles, romantic lifestyles, sexual lifestyles, religious lifestyles do not deserve to be called nasty names, or have nasty names applied to our work because people disagree with what we do.

Now I am not stating you do not have a right to disagree or to complain. You do. It is however unconscionable to claim you are for rights (women’s or otherwise) then label the work of others so dismissively. The people who participate in this kind of art, from both in front of and behind the camera, have chosen to do so. The last thing women need who choose to participate is to be labeled or have their work labeled. No it is not smut. It is art that you disagree with. It is an action that you disagree with.

Let me state for the record… WE GET IT. We get that you want us to follow your moral code. We GET that you consider us immoral because we wish to think differently from you. Because we wish to have boyfriends when we are supposed to have girlfriends. Because we are comfortable showing our bodies. Because we practice fertility rites. Because we pray to others besides your deities.

We are even ok with all of this. We are NOT ok with you applying nasty labels to us because we disagree. Feminisim is the right of a woman to do what she wants. Not the right of her to do only what you decide. (More accurately feminism strives for an equality between the various genders (male, female, neuter, and all of the intersexed genders), not superiority of one over the other). So we need to stop thinking that because a woman makes a choice to be involved in any kind of display, that she is somehow less than women that choose to not display themselves.

The Girl is not half nude.
She surely agreed that her photo gets published.
Any problem if we put a chipandale dude with ubuntu underwear?
bytheway… if you go out on the streets there is heavy chance that in the summer you will se more naked girls in about 10 minutes.