On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:55:16 +0200 María Arias de Reyna <delawen+os...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna > <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com > > wrote: > > > It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female > > nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the > > attention of the whole community. > > > > Thanks all, > > > > -jeff > > > > > Agreed. > > On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their > gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. > (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just > because I am female and not because I worked hard.) > > I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this > stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in > tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we > should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :) > > Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I > know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really > important? I agree with Maria. This remembers me some past discussions while creating OSGeo-Women mailing list. At first we can say that no one is preventing women to enter OSGeo jsut because they are women. But waiting the balance to change without doing nothing is in my opinion not the way to go. Also forcing a female quota like some countries do for elections is not the solution, because it gives gender more importance than merit. My idea is to give everyone the same possibilities, without giving gender/language/etc predefined choices. Therefore I really like the idea of talking about OSGeo in schools - and OSGeo education group is working in that direction, even if not (yet?) to younger kids. Of course this is an approach that will bring results in a long time, but I feel it is the strongest. Best, Anne -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla
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