Faces of Ubuntu developers - an observation

[Darcy Casselman]

If you are concerned about the lack of gender diversity in the Ubuntu 
project (that photo, incidentally, is everybody at UDS, which includes 
documentation and community groups, not just developers), I'd encourage 
you to join the Ubuntu Women project (http://ubuntu-women.com/).  Their 
mission is specifically to encourage women to participate in Ubuntu and 
free software.

I'd also welcome suggestions on how Ubuntu Canada can do more to 
encourage participation in Ubuntu by everyone, but also by women and 
other under-represented groups as well.  I've got ideas about things we 
can do at the local level, but it comes down to people and time, as with 
everything.  I'm hopeful we can start working on things next year.

Also, we have an IRC meeting tomorrow night (8pm EST in #ubuntu-ca on 
Freenode).  There's not much on the agenda.  You're welcome to come 
pitch ideas about how to improve both participation and diversity in 
participation. :)

Darcy.

On 11-12-11 04:31 PM, Ralph Pichie 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...
>