[coreboot] User:Hailfinger/Drafts/Women

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 26.06.2009 12:22, Urja Rannikko wrote:
>> Why not work on attracting more geeky
>> people who like being close to hw?
>
> Well, i think the point in this is that anybody (also women) can be
> "people who like being close to hw",
> so we should work on attracting anybody who likes to be close to hw :)
>   

Basically, there are three points to consider AFAICS.
1. If we mention women explicitly, it means we see and officially
acknowledge a deficit even if that is not our fault.
2. Is explicitly inviting women insulting to them? After all, treating
them like everyone else would mean we'd not mention them explicitly. I
actually got conflicting answers from women for this question.
3. Are there other groups which are insulted because we explicitly
invite women, but not $GROUP? I think Joe brought up this point.

I added a sentence to
http://www.coreboot.org/User:Hailfinger/Drafts/Friendliness which
hopefully is generic and broad enough.
"We welcome participation from every human being, regardless of
gender/ethnicity/views/..."

http://www.coreboot.org/User:Hailfinger/Drafts/Women will probably
become a redirect to .../Friendliness soon.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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