(Alex, can you please fix your ‘From’ field so that, like your signature, it gives your proper name.)
Clockwork PC <[email protected]> writes: > But 28% is nowhere near parity, and it raises the question of whether > 50/50 is a realistic goal. I don't know who is promoting parity, or 50/50. I would appreciate a Message-Id to whatever message you're getting that idea from. Who is proposing that goal? If no-one, why are you criticising it? > Far more importantly than how many women there are in open source is > *how happy the women in open source are*. Even if 28% women is the > very highest participation rate we can get, given the society we live, > our goal should be that the women in open source get to feel safe and > included in our movement. Right. Given the apparent fact that free-software participation from women is at single-digit percentages, I'd say that supports the idea we are a long way from this laudable goal. -- \ “I don't want to live peacefully with difficult realities, and | `\ I see no virtue in savoring excuses for avoiding a search for | _o__) real answers.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2009-09-12 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
