Re: Women in GNOME (Was: Code Of Conduct)

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

On 6/1/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> Anne wrote:
> [snip]
> > I do not say this to start a new long debat in this tread. But it has
> > become obvious that the 1% participation of women in FLOSS is
> > embarrassing and we need to have a look at why this is the case and make
> > some cultural changes.
> >
> > I know that the Computer Science Department at the University of
> > Gothenburg in Sweden has a gender action plan:
> > http://www.informatik.gu.se/dokument/dokument.xsp?group=jamstalldhet&menu=org
> >
> > I think that many other universities and even GNOME and Ubuntu could get
> > a lot of inspiration here. (Provided it gets translated from Swedish
> > into a language you understand.)
> [snip]
>
> Realistically, this plans needs to be written by you. Others will help you
> with it, but you need to create it and drive it.

Such a plan should be written by someone who has actually been
involved in IRC, our mailing lists, bugzilla, etc., *as a developer*-
which, sorry, isn't Anne. It will not work if it is not driven by
someone with such experience.

Luis