[Osmf-talk] 3→4% figure source? | Re: Commitment to open communication channels

[Rory McCann]

That research only looks at people editing nodes in the USA up to 
February 2018, and they only looked at the top 2,000 users, and for half 
of those they were unable to assign a gender to the OSMer, and seemed to 
be based on “We look at their account, and tried to figure it out 
ourselves”.

Different regions in OSM have different types of communities, and I 
think you can't generalize from the USA to the whole of OSM.

It's not very strong evidence, especially if you're going to claim 
relevant for something today.

If all you have to go on is the 20→25% figure from Rome, then OSMF board 
is being *under-represented* w.r.t. non-males.

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(PS. replying from the right email account this time)

On 19/08/2020 09:48, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 
> 
> sent from a phone
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>> On 19. Aug 2020, at 09:14, Rory McCann <rory.mccann at osmfoundation.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Where's your evidence/What's your source for this 3→4% figure?
> 
> 
> I took if from this paper:
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3290605.3300793
> 
> According to my local experience (e.g. Berlin Stammtisch) it seemed 
> plausible (although in our Rome meetups we have much higher numbers, 
> about 20-25%, but based on a very low total of 4-5 ;-) )
> 
> I suppose in some environments the numbers may be higher (professional 
> mapping, e.g. HOT).
> 
> Cheers Martin
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