Hi Jean, Thanks for replying to this here at women@ - the post was in response to a message posted to women@ only, and so technically, my reply was necessarily in response to the post at women@ and then cross-posted to d...@community, rather than vice versa, with all due respect ;-)
Am conscious that there may be subscribers to women@ that have yet to decide whether or not to bother subscribing to d...@community at this stage, although may yet decide to do so as we speak. So just to check: 1. As moderator for this women@ list, do you know how many subscribers to women@ there are in total as at today? 2. Can you tell how many are currently subscribers to both women@ and d...@community? And so can you work out how many subscribers will no longer be subscribed to either list if women@ were to be closed today? 3. Would you then be able to compare this number to a possibly different number in, say, 7 days time? Best, A On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Jean T. Anderson <j...@bristowhill.com>wrote: > Anjana G Bhattacharjee wrote: > > <snip/> > > 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...@communityinstead. > It would be confusing for a conversation on wo...@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 > > <snip/> > > [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/ >> >> >> > >
