Anjana G Bhattacharjee wrote:
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Have just come across a curious parallel to this, perhaps, in the arena of
Golf tournament sponsorship - IBM sponsored "the Masters" (i.e. men's only)
tournament in April this year with a flurry of justification [1] whilst this
weekend's "Women's British Open" was left to its own devices, albeit rather
carefully done imho [2]
The equivalent explanation wanting here, therefore, is why IBM would sponsor
the Masters whilst missing the "gender balancing" [3] opportunity to sponsor
both for possibly marginal marginal cost afaik given the relevant
technologies would already have been tried and tested by then?
More generally, what does "sponsorship" mean for a corporate like IBM in
this case - and what could it mean a next time around? Specifically, a next
time around with regards open community development? For example, could HP
be our Ricoh?
I doubt there's anyone subscribed to these apache lists who can speak on
behalf of IBM -- or any other company, for that matter. I did a quick
search at www.ibm.com and a better option might be for you to check the
resources at http://www.ibm.com/diversity. There might be somebody you
can contact with your questions/concerns.
Please stop cross-posting to wo...@. Once somebody on the
infrastructure team frees up time to take care of
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2883 , posts to women@ will
start auto-responding with a message to subscribe to d...@community
instead. It would be confusing for a conversation on women@ to stop
midway, so best to keep the conversations moving forward entirely on
d...@community.
That much said, I left women@ on this reply deliberately as a reminder
to women@ subscribers that it will stop accepting posts sometime soon --
we don't know exactly when. So please subscribe to d...@community.
Instructions are at http://community.apache.org.
regards,
-jean
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[1]
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/040610-ibm--the-masters-technology.html
[2] http://www.ricohwomensbritishopen.com/Ricoh.aspx
[3]
http://www.openworldforum.org/attend/agenda/diversity-summit-why-women-matter
[4] http://www.rydercup.com/2010/
