On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:22:23 -0400, Robinson Tryon bishop.robinson@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Joseph Smithjoe@settoplinux.org
wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:33:26 +0200, Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
Joseph Smith wrote:
Carl-Daniel what does this have to do with anything?
I think that's actually a good idea. It's nice to clearly state that we do want female contributors as well.
Why not just say EVERYONE is welcome to contribute. We don't see many Three Toe Sloth developers, should we make a wiki page stating encouraging Three Toe Sloth's to contribute to coreboot as well? The list could go on and on...Get my point?
I think that you raise a very important question: Why should coreboot (or any Free Software project) specifically state their support for women to participate?
Semantically, saying that everyone is welcome to contribute does indeed include women as well as three-toed sloths, children, and any sentient beings we don't know about yet.
Yes this was my exact point. I'm glad to see Carl-Daniel is willing to adjust the page. I think if he wants to mention in the page something about welcoming females because statistically the open source community lacks them it would be fine. I just don't feel there should be a whole page about it. That's my two cents worth :-)