Hey Zack, I don't know that we will include demographic questions in this survey in the future, something to think about.
I do not need a poll to see that Clojure developers are predominantly white men, although that's also true of most programming languages and a consequence of larger pervasive issues in the industry. However, I think the Clojure community has been making progress on increasing diversity through efforts like ClojureBridge http://www.clojurebridge.org/ and the Clojure/conj opportunity grants http://clojure-conj.org/grants/. You might also find this project's data interesting: http://alyssafrazee.com/gender-and-github-code.html I would humbly submit that you should choose your language based on the best tool for the job and then work to hire, train, and improve diversity of the community regardless of what that tool may be. Alex On Monday, October 13, 2014 1:50:13 PM UTC-5, Zack Maril wrote: > > Next year, I would appreciate questions that measure the demographics of > Clojure users be included. Out of the hundreds of people I've heard and > seen talking about using Clojure, the vast majority of them have been white > men. I've thought about it for a few days now and I can only think of three > or four women who I know use Clojure and only a few non white men. I'd like > to know if selecting Clojure as my default/main programming language means > that I'll be forced to select from a fairly homogeneous group of potential > coworkers and miss out on the benefits of a diverse working environment. > -Zack > > > On Friday, October 10, 2014 5:27:50 PM UTC-5, Jony Hudson wrote: >> >> If this is the unofficial survey post of academics using Clojure then I'd >> better add myself to the list :-) >> >> @Bruce do you know what course they're going to be teaching Clojure on at >> Birkbeck? >> >> >> Jony >> >> >> On Friday, 10 October 2014 08:08:28 UTC+1, Bruce Durling wrote: >>> >>> I also know that Birkbeck College University of London is going to be >>> teaching Clojure this year. >>> On Oct 10, 2014 12:01 AM, "Lee Spector" <lspe...@hampshire.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> FWIW I'm another person using Clojure mostly for academic research. And >>>> for computer science education, e.g. I'm currently teaching a >>>> Clojure-based >>>> AI course. I'd be curious to know how many others of us are out there. And >>>> BTW I think that attention to users in these categories could help to grow >>>> the community. >>>> >>>> -Lee >>>> >>>> On Oct 9, 2014, at 12:32 AM, Mars0i <mars...@logical.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> > Thanks for the survey! >>>> > >>>> > I have a couple of suggestions/questions: >>>> > >>>> > For domains, there are no categories for scientific or other research >>>> applications. For example, I mainly use Clojure for writing agent-based >>>> models for academic research. Would a set of categories in this area be >>>> usedful? >>>> > >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com >>>> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >>>> your first post. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
