[Osmf-talk] AGM and board elections

[Steve Doerr]

What is the proportion of women to men among mappers? My guess is that 
it is much lower than two to five.

Steve

On 18/09/2014 23:34, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
> Here is the page /Officers and Board/: 
> http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Officers_%26_Board
>
> Frances (Fran) Allen, a computer engineer and scientist, who worked at 
> IBM, said: "I thought about the women who had done some very amazing 
> things that have not been recognized, even by their peers." [/Coders 
> at Work/ by Peter Seibel, p.514, ISBN 978-1-4302-1948-4]
>
> Basically, she says that in 50s and 60s women at IBM were making 
> fundamental discoveries and breakthroughs. She continues: "There was a 
> woman who essentially was the inventor of multiprogramming and credit 
> was taken by somebody who eventually became a Turing Award winner." 
> That how it was at that time.
>
> I mean women were in fact contributing to computer science and 
> industry significantly.
>
> Perhaps it's time to begin to think about a rule that the board shall 
> include at least two women? And in future 4/3?
>
> brgds
> Oleksiy (Alex-7)
>
> On 18.09.2014 14:50, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> ...the board consists of seven members.
>
>
>
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