Yes, I am thinking about the China originating projects. My point was that the remain China-dominated for a long time, and it is not because they are unwelcoming to straight white males, nor that the straight white males are sensitive, or have issues getting to computers on campus that was suggested somewhere.
My point is, and I think this is highly relevant to the D&I effort, is that I suspect that "project origin" is much more important than anything else. And practically all ASF projects originates outside the ASF, which is part of how we do things. And the question would then rise; Who starts projects elsewhere? What are the demographics there? Why do some of those get traction? Why do some come to ASF? Niclas On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 9:52 AM Justin Mclean <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > c) straight, white males is an under represented group in some projects > > I’d be curious to know which projects, (Perhaps ones, originating out of > China like Dubbo?) but I’m not sure it’s hugely relevant if that's is only > a few projects out of the 200+ we have. > > Some actual data. I did some analysis of the 7000 or so committer names, > which can clearly indicate gender. There's not a single project that has > more than 25% females on it. The average is 95% male. > > You can also make some analysis of ethnicity based on names and while I’ve > not done this in detail, but a quick check shows (of 2000 committers) shows > 65% of committers have European names. > > I let you draw your own conclusions from that. My personal conclusion is > that there is an issue here at the ASF and further study is needed to work > out why this might be so. Hence the survey done a few years back [1] and > the new one being planned. The results above match with the old survey > where responses indicated 5% women and 67% caucasian/white which is not > typical of our industry as a whole or other foundations. > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/ASF+Committer+Diversity+Survey+-+2016 -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java
