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Bruce Bannerman ha scritto:
> Tyler,
>
> Perhaps this 'issue' is not so big after all...
>
> A comment that was made to me by a colleague after FOSS4G-2009 was that she
> thought that it was great to see such a high percentage of attendees were
> fem
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Tyler Mitchell wrote:
Perhaps we can turn the thread to discussing what are the real or
perceived barriers people, in general, find to getting involved with
OSGeo. I'm sure that any barriers women would have might also affect
others, so it might be useful to broaden the
Miles,
I think your questions about the day jobs of OSGeo contributors would
make a great online poll or survey. It would be interesting to get a
look at that data.
Landon
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Tyler Mitchell wrote:
Perhaps we can turn the thread to discussing what are the real or
perceived barriers people, in general, find to getting involved with
OSGeo. I'm sure that any barriers women would have might also affect
others, so it might be useful to broaden the discussion so more
pa
Tyler,
Perhaps this 'issue' is not so big after all...
A comment that was made to me by a colleague after FOSS4G-2009 was that she
thought that it was great to see such a high percentage of attendees were
female; dramatically higher than she would have traditionally seen at a
spatial / geoscience
Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> Thanks for the discussion Landon. I'll leave Pandora well enough
> alone :)
By the way, Debian has a well established female user base:
http://women.debian.org/
Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
Thanks for the discussion Landon. I'll leave Pandora well enough alone :)
Perhaps we can turn the thread to discussing what are the real or perceived
barriers people, in general, find to getting involved with OSGeo. I'm sure
that any barriers women would have might also affect others, so it m
Tyler,
I understand your wife's perspective completely. It seems reasonable to
conclude that there are fewer women involved in OSGeo projects because
there are fewer women involved in open source computing to begin with.
A possible response to your wife's argument is that our society tends to
con
> Maybe my statement was misunderstood?
>
> I meant to say that members of the open source project discussed
> what we
> might do to encourage the participation of more women in the
> project. I
> think there was recognition across the board that the project
> would have
> benefited from more d
Maybe my statement was misunderstood?
I meant to say that members of the open source project discussed what we
might do to encourage the participation of more women in the project. I
think there was recognition across the board that the project would have
benefited from more diversity.
I'm
> I hope things work out with the new mailing list.
Same here - I'm sure just having a place to connect with others will be
encouraging for all involved.
> I know at
> least one of
> the open source software projects I am involved with has
> discussed the
> problem of encouraging the particip
http://xkcd.com/322/
well someone had to post it
Ian
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Anne,
I hope things work out with the new mailing list. I know at least one of
the open source software projects I am involved with has discussed the
problem of encouraging the participation of more women.
Landon
Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
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Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses escribió:
> [Spanish translation at the end of the message]
> [Versión en español al final]
>
> Hello everybody...
>
> Arnulf just asked me to send notice of this iCal with geomatic events,
> mostly (but not exclusively) from the Spanish (as language) - Side of
> the FOS
[Spanish translation at the end of the message]
[Versión en español al final]
Hello everybody...
Arnulf just asked me to send notice of this iCal with geomatic events,
mostly (but not exclusively) from the Spanish (as language) - Side of
the FOSS4G.
The calendar is mantained by XurxoSanz as part
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