[Osmf-talk] Commitment to open communication channels

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 18. Aug 2020, at 18:21, Michael Reichert <osm-ml at michreichert.de> wrote:
> 
> Did you confuse this year with last year? There have been two women on
> the board until December. However, currently no woman is on the board of
> directors.


I am aware of this, my comment was meant for the whole of OpenStreetMap-Foundation history, i.e. all women on all boards through all the years as well as for the last years.
I’ve looked if up and it seems in total we have had 91 board member terms of which 10 were served by women (11%) and since 2015 it were 35 terms with 6 served by women (17%) compared to an estimated participation of women in the project of 3-4%. It may sound cynical, but these are the numbers I have found. For me there is no doubt that more participation of female mappers, both in mapping and in tag development, would be beneficial to the project, but not having them adequately represented in the board is apparently not the root of the problem.

Cheers Martin