After explaining we have an impressive ratio of female to male participants in the Debian project as a whole (not just technical), your suggestion is to get more women involved generally with Debian (still not technically)? Did I miss something, it seems if anything it would make more sense to say we need more women in CS/IT generally after your first claim...
One of the great things about the internet and a project like this is that personalities and qualifications come forward without the ability to judge based on their physical image- whether racial or gender related. Maybe we should find ways to capitalize on this so as to reduce the chances for someone to be judged bases on a name or their designated gender- reduce chances for this to be communicates and emphasize content of the work- what is being done over who is behind the work. > On Mar 26, 2015, at 20:21, Mehdi Dogguy <me...@dogguy.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > Le 2015-03-21 03:50, Charles Plessy a écrit : >> You probably noted that no woman was candidate this year, and that no woman >> was >> appointed to the technical committee in the recent replacements. >> Do you think that it is a problem that there are no women in key positions in >> Debian ? If yes, what do you plan to ameliorate the situation as a DPL ? > > I think that the question is much more large than that. I'd like to point out > the fact that we already do have some women in key positions, and with highly > important role (Front Desk, DebConf chair, Publicity team, ...). We may have > technical subjects in mind but Debian is a big project and there are other > non-technical aspects. The number of women we have in key positions is even > remarkable when we take the ratio of active women in the project. > > IMHO, the question is rather why we don't have more women involved in Debian? > ... and there are many factors. There are social and cultural factors about > which Debian can't do much. For the rest, it is not new that there are very > few women in the free software community. Initiatives like Outreachy (or > rather > OPW) showed great results and we expect the same in our community. We > introduced > the Code of Conduct and the Diversity statement. Both make Debian a more > welcoming > project. We should also take great care of keeping women who are > participating. > > -- > Mehdi > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/08866c301eb1e170d8b56cc3aa583...@dogguy.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/d3c60306-c7a1-42a3-a425-7fc48052f...@gmail.com
