On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 14:34:49 -0700, Noy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now I'd like to consider a third type of scholarship, which I know > maybe slightly controversial but I think could be quite beneficial for > the program. I'd like one of the scholarships to be offered to female > developers. I believe one of the most attractive aspects of wesnoth's > development community is its inclusiveness. The program is translated > to a number of languages and we offer development opportunities to a > wide range of skills sets and different levels. That was partly the > intent behind the art scholarship last year; we attempted to draw in > greater contributions from individuals not typically involved in open > source development (artists.) A examination of open source community > shows that women are highly underrepresented in the field, which is > unfortunate. I believe that we're well placed to work on this area. We > already have some excellent contributions from women developers, such > as kitty, and I'd like to build on that.
Was this going to be a general project, or were you thinking that the project would be tied to making Wesnoth more interesting to female players? (Perhaps another female lead campaign or something.) _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
