Maybe my statement was misunderstood?
I meant to say that members of the open source project discussed what we
might do to encourage the participation of more women in the project. I
think there was recognition across the board that the project would have
benefited from more diversity.
I'm wondering if efforts to get young women more involved in math and
science could be combined with encouraging them to try volunteering with
an OSGeo project?
Landon
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 11:44 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] new: OSGeo women mailing list
> I hope things work out with the new mailing list.
Same here - I'm sure just having a place to connect with others will be
encouraging for all involved.
> I know at
> least one of
> the open source software projects I am involved with has
> discussed the
> problem of encouraging the participation of more women.
It's interesting to hear this called a "problem" - I thought all open
source projects welcomed all people who were interested. Unless of
course there are jerks like in Ian's cartoon - but then again, the
cartoon also presents a solution :-)
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