Hi, On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Harsh Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > Though lack of mentors is a real logistical issue (I can't complain because > I > won't be mentoring this time). We need to recognize the fact that SymPy, > like > most of the other FOSS organizations has a serious lack of women > participants. > > I highly recommend a reading of the article "Free as in Sexist"[1] which > talks > about various issues which drives away women from FOSS. There is a need to > explicitly work on reducing the gender gap in SymPy and programs like Rails > Girls Summer of Code and Outreachy provides good opportunities to do so. > > [1]: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381
Thanks very much for posting this - it paints a very depressing and compelling picture. Matthew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAH6Pt5ppnPT4y%3DsJnt6x_0DWyCOO70F7802OuKtsUHkuzM-DAQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
