Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi debian-devel (2022.07.16_09:12:16_+) > I guess we should expose this in our conference statistics. We care > about it. And in the future, we will: https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/websites/wafer-debconf/-/merge_requests/150 SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +

Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Edward wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Oh, not *another* package that tries to guess things from names. >> >> Do you have a real use for this package? There are a *lot* of issues >> in this area, and mis-gendering people is not something to risk >> lightly... > >I can add a warning to the pa

Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Enrico Zini (2022-07-16 10:17:11) > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:43:16PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > > I've been writing some code to work out the gender balance of speakers at a > > conference. It parses the pentabarf XML of the schedule and feeds the > > speaker > > names to this modul

Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Enrico (2022.07.16_08:17:11_+) > I think the right way to get the statistics you're looking for would be > to ask speakers to state their own identity on pentabarf, so that > statistics are based on self-determination, rather than external > overrides of it. If you're asking about DebConf 2

Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:43:16PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > I've been writing some code to work out the gender balance of speakers at a > conference. It parses the pentabarf XML of the schedule and feeds the speaker > names to this module. > > Here's the results for Debconf 22. > > 72 speake

Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Dominik George
Hi, what practical use, except for direct discriminatory attempts against non-binaries and probably even many cis people, does such a package have? -nik

Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 10:20 +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Edward Betts > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: gender-guesser > Version : 0.4.0 > Upstream Author : Israel Saeta Pér