[diversity-talk] The recent unpleasantness

[Simon Poole]

Am 07.12.2014 10:41, schrieb Sarah Hoffmann:
....
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Melelani Sax-Barnett <saxbarm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> And to your other point, yes, absolutely we need to reach out more. But I
>>> think both are equally important -- it doesn't matter how hard you work
>>> convincing people to join your community if you plop them right down in the
>>> middle of a toxic environment. They're going to try to remain anonymous in
>>> their participation if they stay at all.
> 
> First of all, OSM never has had a problem with anonymous participation. It's 
> our long tail that makes the map as detailed as it is. Second, I'm still
> missing proof that indeed the communication style is the main reason that
> people stay away. 
....

Just as a reminder to all, we do have access to an academic study that
investigates the reasons why contributors go away.

See
http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2013/_extendedAbstract/401_proceeding.pdf




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