Hi Joop, On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 07:45 +0200, Joop Kiefte wrote: > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/ten_easy_ways_attract_women_your_free_software_project > > Maybe this article can be a starting point for when/if we want to try > to get even more and better contributions, and make the project more > accessible? Does anyone know/have statistics about this for > Libreoffice?
You're most welcome to build some. On the other hand of the top ten recommendations a few look like non-starters to me: * switch mailing lists to forums * communicate for the sake of communication not to address specific issues * use wikis instead of version control * switch to a high level language: perl, python,ruby * in-person / pair programming On the other hand - I think we get a few things right: we tend not to have massive flame wars, and (I hope) we have a friendly peer structure. We have some excellent women developers and contributors around who are respected members of the community: I'm thinking of Christina, Regina, Tibbylickle, Sophie, Jaqueline, (and this is where I get duffed up for forgetting some other female super-stars). So - gender shouldn't matter to the welcome in the community. I'm aware of a couple of cases at conferences where women have been actively helped by other attendees to avoid specific unwanted attention; so we try to provide a safe environment. I hope - we're not doing too terribly badly here. Of course, if there are areas of contribution that are more attractive to women that we are failing to provide a good on-ramp into the project for we should fix that. The article suggests UI design, documentation, marketing (though personally I think women hackers are every bit a match for male ones) - then concrete suggestions to improve involvement in these areas are appreciated: although, this is the wrong list to discuss those topics :-) HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice