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From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tmitchell.os...@shaw.ca]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:51 PM
To: Landon Blake
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: RE: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] new: OSGeo women mailing
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Brian Russo
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:30 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] new: OSGeo women mailing list
I find the underlying bias of this discussion itself fascinating.
Landon is right that surveying
Landon Blake wrote:
My main point is that we should encourage more diversity in our
professions. Software development and land surveying would benefit
from more women, and nursing would likely benefit from more men.
(Ironically, I have a good friend that is in school for nursing right
now,
http://xkcd.com/322/
well someone had to post it
Ian
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Ian Turton
Sent from State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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I hope things work out with the new mailing list.
Same here - I'm sure just having a place to connect with others will be
encouraging for all involved.
I know at
least one of
the open source software projects I am involved with has
discussed the
problem of encouraging the participation
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 11:44 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] new: OSGeo women mailing list
I hope things work out with the new mailing list.
Same here - I'm sure just
Maybe my statement was misunderstood?
I meant to say that members of the open source project discussed
what we
might do to encourage the participation of more women in the
project. I
think there was recognition across the board that the project
would have
benefited from more
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-Original Message-
From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tmitchell.os...@shaw.ca]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:51 PM
To: Landon Blake
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: RE: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] new: OSGeo women mailing list
Maybe my statement was misunderstood?
I meant
Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting,
Wolf Bergenheim and I are happy to announce the creation of OSGeo-women,
a new mailing list dedicated to discussion around women in OSGeo
projects. The idea is born as a collaboration with Systers, the world's
largest email community of technical women in
