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Le 04/02/10 11:44, Miriam Ruiz a écrit :
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<pre wrap="">My idea was, as we were talking about make a proper survey, to make a
mindstorm, find out the different causes of the low participation of
women in FLOSS, find possible solutions for them, and then design a
survey that could help us validate or deny our conclusions and
prioritize what problems we should face on. My experience with female
teams in FLOSS is that we somehow tend to concentrate in fighting
against sexist jokes and sometimes some mentoring projects. I wonder
if it's the best way to invest our efforts to get the most benefit
(measured in number of women joining the projects). It might be a good
thing to try to face this using some objective methods based in
science. A proper survey to confirm or deny our suspicions might be a
good thing, as it was said, but we somehow need a brainstorm and some
internal conclusions first.
Of course, as you say, the communication style might be related to
self-esteem, but even in that case, statistically women have a lower
self-esteem than men, so the statistical correlation seems to exist. A
statistical relationship of course does not imply a cause-effect
relationship (See: Global Warming vs. Number of Pirates).
It would be nice to talk about this in the conversations about the
global strategy of WoMoz in FOSDEM.
Greetings,
Miry
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I really feel like what you are saying here enters perfectly in the
Saturday daily agenda for example:<br>
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1. Typology of the contributors (amongst regular contributors, how many
are women? Who are they and in what different areas do they contribute?)<br>
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2. What are their experiences/feelings as women in floss & Mozilla?<br>
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Number 2. -> that's where could enter the brainstorm and
international conclusions that you are suggesting, as well as the
survey deriving from those.<br>
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Delphine<br>
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