On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:17:46 +0000, Karabuta wrote: > Moreover, the socia Media representation of D sucks.
This suggests hiring someone for marketing. > I think we need a female, You can start by using the term "woman" rather than "female". Deemphasizing people's humanity isn't a good way to get them into your community. > at least someone soft and mortal who actually understand how to > communicate and build a community. It's unfair to demand that a woman come in and help out with a project based on stereotypes. If I chose an arbitrary woman to help out, she is likely not to have the requisite skills. You also want us to find a woman willing to do this without compensation -- you're not talking about hiring a part time community manager. Note that community management is much different from marketing. Community management is about curation and internal promotion. Adam Ruppe's _This Week in D_ is the sort of thing a community manager would do. Marketing is about bringing people to D -- representing it at events and on social media, that kind of thing. > Coders suck at these things and its not helping. See what you just did there? You created a false dichotomy between women and coders. There are tons of women who can code. The first programmer was a woman. The first person to write a compiler was a woman. You also insulted everyone here in the same breath. > This is not about gender balance crap, it about building a community. Not pushing away half the world by slighting them and demanding that they work for free at the same time would be a good start. You could suggest that the D foundation hire a part-time community manager (we're low traffic; 5-10 hours a week should do) and donate to help accomplish that. > Forgive me for my brutal opinion. If you know in advance that you have to ask forgiveness for something, you could simply not do it in the first place.
