It would be helpful to do the analysis, but I do think we should be careful on this analysis to jump into conclusions too quickly.
I moved to the USA from another country, and US address is given in the ICLA. That is true for a good number of my friends who started getting involved with open source as well. Including or excluding people like me in the analysis would not really capture the diversity part. So I think doing the analysis is a great idea, but we should be cautious about the conclusions we derive from it. Best Aizhamal On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 09:37 Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: > On 5/15/2019 7:20 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > Hi Awasum, > > > > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 3:42 PM Awasum Yannick <awa...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> ...If we really wanted to know the country/country/geographical > distribution > >> of our committers, the most reliable way to do it is to look at the iCLA > >> files without displaying names of committers, just the countries... > > > > I agree in principle but the lone committer from Failuristan, where > > participation in Open Source can get you in trouble, would not be > > happy to see that. > > For several years I was over 50, female, and a student in UCSD's > Computer Science PhD program. > > Considered separately, age, gender, department, and intended degree each > seems harmless. Taken together, they uniquely identified me. > > I looked closely at surveys, and checked whether they had a minimum > group size policy that would protect my privacy. I would have been upset > to see information I had supplied for legal or administrative purposes > treated as research survey data without having the opportunity to decide > for myself whether or not to participate. > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org > >
