Full ACK. I'm not a founder, and I am missing technical discussion here since this was what I hoped for when I joined this list: seeing women discussing technical Debian issues. I mean, discussions in a male-dominated/(apart from me) male-only environment is what I have on a daily basis. And yes, my experience is that the outcome often is quite different.will scare them off. If I were to join DW now and had not been afounder, I would probably be annoyed by a lack of *any* technical focus.
Although I am running mainly Debian I'm not likely to follow specialized Debian lists -- simply because I don't have time enough to follow a hundred lists that cover interesting topics, I am not likely to become a Debian developer (read: my day unfortunately has only 24 hours), but I might have use some of parts of this specialized knowledge in my day job and and in other projects that I am involved in (otherwise I wouldn't be here).
I'm wondering whether this is a very special user profile here on this list :)
Just my 2p Patricia