Hello, there is the view that diversity is key for a successful community, leading body etc. This counts for open source communities and their (leading) bodies too.
I had a look into the applications for the next TDF board and found there the narration 'while our user base is amazingly diverse, and so is our community (...)'. This makes me curious and I tried to find out, if the applications reflects this narration. First I had a look at gender of the candidates and thought that among them would be more women than among the members of the German federal parliament (Deutscher Bundestag): https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/mdb_zahlen_19/frauen_maenner-529508 709 members, 221 women and 488 men; about 31 % female members. TDF board candidates: 12 candidates, 0 women, 12 men; accurate 0 % women. Thus the prediction about the gender relation of the next TDF board is not that difficult. There will not be any gender diversity. The newspapers and news pages in Germany talk about a Swedish study today that women are the better leaders, because of their soft skills. I looked further around for amazingly diversity among the candidates. But I don't get the information that among them is someone who is not working inside the IT business. Is this an effigy of the current TDF community? Let's have a look at the affiliation of the candidates. One of them declared him 'an independent candidate', something that alerted me and made me suspicious. And I found this: http://samtuke.com/tag/collabora/ and http://samtuke.com/2015/12/goodbye-collabora-hello-phplist/ But the message of the declaration 'an independent candidate' could read as: I'm the only independent candidate. Let's have a look on the affiliation of the candidates: five or more (?) of the twelf candidates have an affiliation with one company: about 41%. It seemed this overcompensate the missing balance between female and male board candidates ;-) Kind regards, Andreas -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
