On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:29:35AM +0000, Todor Kondić wrote: > You know, there is a big IT department within our institution and telling > them I will base some serious work on technologies such as GNU Guile and > Guix did raise a few eyebrows (those not raised are probably the cause of > their proprietors not being informed enough). > > […] > Couple of notes: > > 1) Are there any ladies on these lists? I am *dying* to hear from them > 2) Related to (1) ... a brief look at the maintainers who signed the Joined > Statement gives an impression that it leans heavily to the politically > Western hemisphere; just a comment, maybe food for thought > 3) The RMS scandal was brought to my attention by a female coder colleague > who previously knew nothing of RMS's, or FSF's or GNU's work in the "Open > Source Community"; another nibble for thought >
There have been few contributions from women, e.g. <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2017-03/msg00042.html> (I do not know what its status is), but I believe bringing GNU Guile to professional use could help diversify. Thank you for that! Regards, Florian