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.
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michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
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