TSR Thanks for your considered response.... I'll just focus in on this comment;
>> I know this maybe a controversial subject but I think if we do this >> right it will be a major benefit for our program. > > One thing to have in mind is to ask women to actually govern this > particular scholarship. Sometimes I have felt cheezy when men try to > 'help' women without actually asking them if and how they want help. This actually gets to the root of the problem; Wesnoth as a organization does not currently have, (nor in its seven year history) ever counted a woman coding developer among its ranks. Thus we don't have a person who can do what we're asking. Its not just an issue facing us, but I think the open source community as a whole. In the future if wesnoth had a woman administrator to manage this, that would be a real achievement in my mind. On the practical side for the short term you're absolutely right this is a concern. My response is that when I do approach some of the organizations for women in open source to advertise, I'll try to involve them to obtain feedback on our proposal. That will not just benefit how we actually implement the scholarship (to get the best technical results), but I think it might make it more amenable for suitable candidates to join. Again, I appreciate the effort you took to point this out... Noy _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
