Re: More women in key positions ?

2015-03-30 Thread Mehdi DOGGUY
Le 31 mars 2015 02:49, bjf...@gmail.com a écrit : > > 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)? No. At all. I

Re: More women in key positions ?

2015-03-30 Thread Brandon Foster
Hmm, my suggestion wasn't to treat everyone the same, that doesn't seem reasonable or like a good way to achieve our goals. Rather, it was to blur the way identities are formed - from having male or female names with male and female personalities and roles to focusing on the content of our work and

Re: More women in key positions ?

2015-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
bjf...@gmail.com writes: > 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

Re: More women in key positions ?

2015-03-30 Thread bjf092
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 sa

Re: More women in key positions ?

2015-03-30 Thread Charles Plessy
> In order for the TC to recommend someone, they must first be nominated > and accept, or nominate themselves. > > Claiming that the lack of women on the TC can be resolved simply by > forcing the TC to do so is simplistic. It also seems to me to be > insulting to the many highly skilled women in