[OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

[Eli Adam]

Reclaiming "Like a girl" to no longer be an insult highlights that
language is an important part of our interactions.

While on campaigns, here are another two specifically on tech and
gender, both with major corporate backing [0][1].

Circling back to OSGeo Charter Member nominations, Jeff received a
report that there are not enough female nominees.  The most direct way
to address this is to think of the people you know and interact with,
if some of those people are women and have the positive attributes [2]
in the recommended membership selection criteria, nominate them or
bring that person's contributions and positive attributes to the
attention of someone else who can nominate them.  You can run through
a mental list of who you think already is or should be a Charter
Member and then see if it is true [3] and then nominate them.  You can
do this whether you think that there are enough female nominees or
not.  You can also use this process for men.

While commenting on nominations, I'll share that the best nominations
provided a relevant summary and support it with some links.
Nominations in this form make it easy to evaluate and determine that
the nominee has the positive attributes sought in Charter Members [2].

Best regards, Eli

[0] http://www.verizon.com/powerfulanswers/inspirehermind/
[1] https://www.madewithcode.com/
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes
[3] http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> For those interested in gender bias, you might want to look at this "Like a
> girl" campaign, which questions the meaning that "Like a girl" has in our
> language, and suggests redefining it.
>
> http://m.dailylife.com.au/life-and-love/parenting-and-families/the-advertising-campaign-that-will-make-you-proud-to-run-like-a-girl-20140627-3ax9w.html?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=june&eid=socialn:fac-13omn1676-edtrl-other:nnn-17/02/2014-edtrs_socialshare-all-nnn-nnn-vars-o
>
>
> On 25/07/2014 12:59 am, Jo Cook wrote:
>
> I totally agree with Maria. As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel
> that my gender matters in the slightest. I'm far more concerned about a bias
> towards people from the US or Northern/Western Europe if we are trying to be
> truly global.
>
> Jo
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna
> <delawen+osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna
>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female
>>> nominations for Charter members.  I just want to bring this to the
>>> attention of the whole community.
>>>
>>> Thanks all,
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>> 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.)
>>
>> 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 :)
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Regards,
>> María.
>>
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