Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Preliminary results

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Hello Alan,

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

> most people would consider most of them fine candidates too. I'm not
> sure that a positive discrimination policy would neccessarily help
> either although one could certainly be put to referendum if people did.

Just for the record, I wasn't advocating a positive discrimination 
policy. I had hoped that the community would see the value of a bit more 
mixed composition itself.

> The stats that have come out of free software developer studies show the
> problem is a little deeper than management. On a twenty member board
> you'd expect between half and one woman member if its constitution
> matched that of the developer body itself.

I don't want to be pedantic, but I don't think being a developer is a 
requirement to become a member of the GNOME Foundation or to vote in its 
elections. In any case, the fact that two women were candidates for the 
board outperforms the statistics. :-)

regards,

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