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Am 06.05.2010 18:53, schrieb Greg Boggs:
> I beg to differ. Including women in the project is not different from
> how you hire and grant developers. Rather excluding women is exactly
> what you will do if you don't tell people your hiring developers and
> select candidates from those already on this list. If you want to grant
> talented developers to do productive work on the project, you should
> hire openly, fairly, and with equal opportunity.

Sorry to tell you, that you as a user out of the community (why are you using
the 'we think' angle all the time as if you were a core dev, btw?) have not seen
all the stuff we talked about. To sum the stuff about scholarship up in some
short and pregnant words:

*THIS IS NOT ABOUT FAIRNESS FOR EVERYONE IN THE INTERNET!!!*

If the stuff was just about fairness we would establish some fixed process,
announce it openly around the net making sure that it appears on IT sites and
all the likes to attract as much attention from computer people as possible.
We do not want to invite people that just want to do mercenary work. What we do
want is to show people that it is fun spending time with open source work. In
general we do also have to be careful regarding the amount of attraction we
reach for projects like this since someone has to handle the new people joining
and review project proposals.

In general you are mixing some things regarding our "Summer Scholarship".
Basically we got two different angles that we do consider to in parallel:
1) There is this grant thing. It is meant for "proven developers", people we
trust. This is not limited to C++ coding but it does also cover stuff like
creating artwork, creating content (WML) in "no idea which" area and all the 
likes.
2) There is a possible scholarship explicitly meant to attract "outside persons"
which we plan to completely restrict to women.

Do you see the difference? Yes, those are two basically different aspects. The
only thing that is identical is that "Wesnoth Inc" does pay people.

Cheers,
Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic
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