On 11/09/10 13:09, Anne Ghisla wrote: > On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 02:01 +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> Dear Ladies, >> >> During the conference, Athina shared her impression about >> gender mix in the board of directors. >> I thoroughly support Athina's opinion it would be beneficial for the >> foundation if some women could make it to the board. >> >> Thus, I'd like to send out some bits of encouragement to you ladies. >> Please, stand out! > > Hi Mateusz, all, > > [I cc discuss list to broaden the audience] > > thanks for encouraging the participation of women in OSGeo! > > Lot of thoughts and live discussions took place at the conference, and I > had a chat with Helena about her perception of gender bias. In the US, > she feels that women are no more a minority in the computer science > field. It is not the same in other parts of the world, however, and > that's something that OSGeo, as US-based foundation, has to consider. > Athina and me also discussed about how women presence is uneven > regarding the profile, i.e. coders, managers, sysadmins etc, so it is > risky to generalise.
Anne, For me, the board configuration is a projection of typical IT crowd :-) Fingers crossed! Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
