SCALE 8x: Moving the needle

Posted Feb 27, 2010 14:03 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: SCALE 8x: Moving the needle by golding
Parent article: SCALE 8x: Moving the needle

Male developers who are discriminated against by not having their sexism
catered for in excluding women should be treated in *exactly* the same way
as would white developers who felt discriminated against because there
were too many damn $RACIAL_MINORITY_OF_CHOICE around.

There are essentially none of the latter in the free software community,
and I'd hope we all see this as a good thing. It's no different from the
former, except that the 'minority' you here propose to exclude to save the
feelings of the poor delicate misogynists comprises half the human race.

(I hope/suspect this was devil's advocacy on your part.)

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SCALE 8x: Moving the needle

Posted Mar 5, 2010 14:25 UTC (Fri) by sarahmei (guest, #64104) [Link]

You are quite right, and someone asked about this during the Q&A. I would love to help with that problem. I decided to address the lack of women because I have great contacts in that area. My contacts aren't as good among communities that I'm not personally a part of.

But, now that we've been open about our goal to increase women's participation, we've made some contacts with members of other communities. We're now planning a workshop (for all genders) in Spanish, which we hope will draw in some of the Hispanic developers in SF.