Re: More women in key positions ?
After explaining we have an impressive ratio of female to male participants in the Debian project as a whole (not just technical), your suggestion is to get more women involved generally with Debian (still not technically)?
Did I miss something, it seems if anything it would make more sense to say we need more women in CS/IT generally after your first claim...
One of the great things about the internet and a project like this is that personalities and qualifications come forward without the ability to judge based on their physical image- whether racial or gender related. Maybe we should find ways to capitalize on this so as to reduce the chances for someone to be judged bases on a name or their designated gender- reduce chances for this to be communicates and emphasize content of the work- what is being done over who is behind the work.
> On Mar 26, 2015, at 20:21, Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Le 2015-03-21 03:50, Charles Plessy a écrit :
>> You probably noted that no woman was candidate this year, and that no woman was
>> appointed to the technical committee in the recent replacements.
>> Do you think that it is a problem that there are no women in key positions in
>> Debian ? If yes, what do you plan to ameliorate the situation as a DPL ?
>
> I think that the question is much more large than that. I'd like to point out
> the fact that we already do have some women in key positions, and with highly
> important role (Front Desk, DebConf chair, Publicity team, ...). We may have
> technical subjects in mind but Debian is a big project and there are other
> non-technical aspects. The number of women we have in key positions is even
> remarkable when we take the ratio of active women in the project.
>
> IMHO, the question is rather why we don't have more women involved in Debian?
> ... and there are many factors. There are social and cultural factors about
> which Debian can't do much. For the rest, it is not new that there are very
> few women in the free software community. Initiatives like Outreachy (or rather
> OPW) showed great results and we expect the same in our community. We introduced
> the Code of Conduct and the Diversity statement. Both make Debian a more welcoming
> project. We should also take great care of keeping women who are participating.
>
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> Mehdi
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