<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>thank you Jeff for having raised this matter, I find it really interesting for the sake of pure data analysis and discussion. I agree with Maria except one single point: is it really important? I think it is. As Maria points out, I agree it is not from OSGeo side that the problem should be addressed, because i don't see any barriers for women approaching OSGeo. On the contrary, it is one of the kindest and welcoming environment. But I think that it would be very interesting to analyse the real causes why women apparently seem not to be attracted by these subjects. I think that there are deeper sociological and practical reasons behind. It would be an interesting exercise to explore the correlation between number of females in open source/technology/science with some drivers such as the perspective of working stability offered by different countries, the facilities for working mothers offered by private and public sectors and so on. I think that exploring such reasons in detail would really help to improve society and to offer real "equal" opportunities to every citizen.<br>
<br></div>Best,<br></div>madi<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:delawen+osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">delawen+osgeo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female<br>
nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the<br>
attention of the whole community.<br>
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Thanks all,<br>
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-jeff<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Agreed. </div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am female and not because I worked hard.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important?</div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">María.</div></div>
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