25 Women in 10 Free Software Organizations for GNOME's Outreach Program for Women

> I am male. I never in my life discriminated against any woman let alone for thousands of years. I did do nothing wrong.

> Yet I'm being discriminated against at numerous occasions...

This is a serious problem with reparation schemes or any situation in which a minority group is given preference -at the expense of- other groups. But that's not what GNOME thing is. If it wasn't a targeted program for women in open source, it's not like there'd be some equivalent non-targeted thing. The point is not just to find developers, but to improve network effects, change the atmosphere and tone of the open-source, and otherwise make the open-source world a more appealing place for women.

And the endgame of -that- is to increase the net developer power, not change its composition. There is no excess of open source developers. Nobody will be displaced by un-alienating alienated groups.