Thanks for the data point. This means that marcmail.com is no longer indexing women@
I have no idea why. However, the arguments for bringing women@ into comdev stand in my opinion. Sent from my mobile device. On 17 Jul 2010, at 18:44, Anjana G Bhattacharjee <a.g.bhattachar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > >> A little history is probably relevant here. Woman@ was set up on Aug 7 >> 2005, during that time it has had very little activity with the most recent >> email being Sept 14th 2007. > > >> The fact is that people are not looking for a list called "women@". >> Nevertheless the reasons that the list was originally created are still >> valid. >> >> The community development project was created last year. In our original >> resolution we had not proposed taking the women@ "activity". Instead we >> are focussing on making it easier for people in general rather than on the >> issues facing a specific group. The board requested that we take ownership >> of the women@ work too. Since women@ has always been "just a list" it has >> had no official role in the foundation. Bringing the activity into ComDev >> provides a vehicle through which more action can be taken if there are >> people willing and able to undertake such action. >> >> Rolling the women@ list into the d...@community.a.o list need not be a >> permanent solution. If there is sufficient momentum behind the >> wo...@objectives then we could, at some point in the future, create >> wo...@community.apache.org - however, at this point in time there is no >> need for such a list as demonstrated by the lack of activity on the existing >> women@ list [2]. >> > > Please note that the source data used above is incorrect, with the most > recent email activity actually going a little way beyond Sept 14th 2007 [1], > including an interesting post dated 3rd March 2009 [2] which links to some > research work done on the "Effects of Gender Socialization on Females in the > Open Source Community" [3] > > Hope this helps, A > > [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-women/ > [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-women/200903.mbox/browser > [3] http://short-stack.net/Paper.pdf
