Re: [OSM-talk] Survey Results for the thread "Some thoughts against remote mapping"

2015-06-20 Thread Clifford Snow
At first glance, 42% feel OSM is welcoming to women sounds okay, but stepping back, what it really shows there is a lot of room for improvement. My goal was to quickly survey to people on the issues raised in the thread. Getting at the gender issue requires more than just looking at the answers by

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey Results for the thread "Some thoughts against remote mapping"

2015-06-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Saturday 20 June 2015, Clifford Snow wrote: > [...] A survey seemed like the > best approach. The results are from a small, self selected group of > mappers that subscribe to the talk mailing list. The results do not > attempt to say what is the right answer, only what a small segment of > the c

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey Results for the thread "Some thoughts against remote mapping"

2015-06-20 Thread Kate Chapman
Yes, I would be especially interested if the results were broken out by gender. Currently I suspect you just showed that men think OSM is welcoming to women...since there aren't that many in OSM to even take the survey. -Kate On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: > The issue rai

[OSM-talk] Survey Results for the thread "Some thoughts against remote mapping"

2015-06-20 Thread Clifford Snow
The issue raised by Frederik Ramm was, to paraphrase Ben Abelshausen, an interesting topic and certainly a lot of people wanted to contribute to the discussion. I was impressed by the positive tone taken by participants in the conversation. To me that bodes well for our community. Frederik raises