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Re: We need more women!!!
by Anonymous on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @14:09

88.4% + 5.4% = 93.8% != 100%

So what are those neither male nor female. They can't all be hybrids, can they?

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Re: We need more women!!!
by Odysseus on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @14:15

They've undeclared, i.e. Danny doesn't know what they are and is far to polite to ask...

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Re: We need more women!!!
by Hans on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @14:17

According to the digest, 6.09 % are of unknown gender. That's right. There's more of them than the females.

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Re: We need more women!!!
by Chani on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @20:40

maybe some girls don't want to let on that they're girls, since some people get so weird about it...

KDE has been pretty good about this in my experience, though. most people seem quite mature :) I don't even think about gender issues most of the time.

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Re: We need more women!!!
by NabLa on Friday 11/Jan/2008, @01:29

"maybe some girls don't want to let on that they're girls, since some people get so weird about it..."

I agree with that, what we're talking about is geeky stuff and you all have to agree that geeky stuff, and not just geeky computing stuff, is just full of scary weirdos...

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Re: We need more women!!!
by Lee on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @14:40

Don't make assumptions! They actually could be :) But let's stop talking about genders and stereotypes please. It can only spoil a great KDE 4.0 celebration :)

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Re: We need more women!!!
by Max on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @14:46

Yea, I didn't add the 6% as they were undeclared. I didn't want to make assumptions. Even if they were all women, the ratio of male to female KDE developers is still very sad. :(

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Re: We need more women!!!
by Danny Allen on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @14:47

The problem with these "human" statistics is that they are "opt-in" - it is not a condition of getting an SVN account that this information is provided, and this is just a private initiative by me.

Where I don't know the gender of a person, I can often guess from their name. However, this is not possible for other ones, such as age and location, and so those are less complete. And of course, there are new accounts created weekly, which makes the data collection an ongoing effort.

People with KDE SVN accounts can contribute their data at http://commit-digest.org/data/

Danny

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