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

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc 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.

Hmm, how about people working together? It just seems that the person who
most most obviously wants this should be the person trying to make it
happen.

Murray Cumming
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