Tony Mechelynck wrote:
Have a merry Christmas, Philip, and a happy New Year :-) ! Midnight
(my time) is in three and a quarter hours (about), yours in several
more if you are back home and not visiting family in Britain — I
shall have a thought for you and all the nice SeaMonkey guys tomorrow
when we cut the cake at my nephew's.
Merry Christmas everyone!
(Why so few girls BTW? Is monkeying around with a Suite so
unladylike?)
Few? That's understatement. :-)
No, really, looking at female participation in bigger projects, like FF
or KDE, you can clearly see that engagement is mainly (not entirely!)
concentrated in more social areas like marketing (which is non-existent
in our group), communication, community-building (think Test Pilot etc.)
and the like. I'm not saying that's a bad thing; not at all. It's just
fundamentally different from what the SM devs are doing (and like to do,
for the most part). And just saying "we need more women" isn't enough,
so much is clear. Someone would need to get some activity in the above
areas started first before female participation could be expected or
hoped for.
Note that TB doesn't have too many women working on the project either
AFAIK. You might find some parallels there.
Greetings,
Jens
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Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/>
SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/>
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