Faces of Ubuntu developers - an observation

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Ralph Pichie <thevillagegeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is the UDS group photo at Wikipedia.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20110512-144509-UDSOneiric.jpg
>
> I didn't count the whole crowd, but there must have been 200 people or
> more in the photo. I did look for what appeared to be female faces. I
> counted only 12, with a few that were not clearly visible, mostly
> because of bright sunlight reflections. I realize that there is less
> of a gender imbalance in other areas, such as promotion, documentation
> and the like, but still...

Ah, this is probably true, however...

What is your point? We're developing on Ubuntu to get a better
software platform, to distribute software to the masses, etc; not to
gawk at colleagues who happen to be of the opposite sex. ;)

While it's true that there happens to be imbalance, I'd like to
believe things are going relatively well considering that AFAIK we
*are* very welcoming and open (and Ubuntu and the UDS have strict
anti-harassment policies), and we have projects like Ubuntu Women (and
that team organizes events, etc.). I'm not saying that there is
nothing that can be done, but merely that pointing out this fact
doesn't help.

Do you believe something is missing there? If it's the case, it would
be helpful if you could provide concrete ideas and solutions; I'll
happily communicate them to the Community Team or to the Ubuntu Women
team, as necessary.

Kind regards,

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl at gmail.com>
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