On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 23:16 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:47:40PM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > Apparently, yes: This is one plausible explanation for our disastrous (1%) > > female involvement and low asian involvement. That 1% is so scary that I > > can't see how we can make it worse, so I'm for all kinds of crazy > > experiments to fix it. > > Not to dispute that affirmative action is a good thing, but > perhaps we're on the wrong level here. > > A quick browse of intake statistics for the University of Western > Australia says that of 47 BCompSc freshers last year, only 2 were > women. For BEng (all majors) the female intake was only 10%.
We seem to be far below 10%. And way below the 25% or so number that I've read for general proprietary involvement. I agree that wider society is the problem, and I think we should be the solution, but we are not quite there yet. > Also of interest, a (female) colleague asked where we're getting our > 1% contribution statistic from. It sounds believable, but is it > people with CVS accounts, or does it include translators who send > translations to their i18n team leader. Did someone just look > through a list of names and guess the genders? Similarly for > "asianness" (sic). Are we just using the domain names on their > email addresses? > > Perhaps we should be looking towards going forces with other groups > for a "women in open source drive" or even a "women in IT" drive. I > know that Pia Waugh has really gotten behind this in Australia. Yes, the current people on [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be involved in Ubuntu and Debian. I'm sure they'd welcome ideas. -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
