On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:00:08PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:29:40 +1000, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:29:40PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > >> Evidence. I would like to see evidence that Debian has not been > >> giving equal rights to males and women over the past years. > > > The fact that our male / female participation ratio is much lower > > than even the gender split in IT, let alone the wider community > > should be enough. > > Are you suggesting we are discriminating against africans, > since the ratio of participants is far lower than the population > figures suggest? Are we discriminating against Hindus? Why not?
The culture of the project may be causing us to drive away Africans and Hindus, yes. If so, I think we should consider it's effect and whether we are losing something valuable from their lack of participation. - Matt