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

[Rory McCann]

The 3 sources are:

[3] Haklay, M. and Budhathoki, N. (2010), OpenStreetMap – Overview and 
Motivational Factors, Horizon Infrastructure Challenge Theme Day, The 
University of Nottingham.

A presentation (not paper?) ( 
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/16461/Horizon%20March%202010%20(Haklay%20and%20Budhahtoki).pdf 
), using data from April (or July?) 2009. It doesn't say how they 
collected the data, I think a survey of 426 people, of which 3% were 
female (Pg. 30).

[4] Lechner, M. (2011), Nutzungspotentiale crowdsourceerhobener Geodaten 
auf verschiedenen Skalen, Dissertation, Freiburg.

https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/fedora/objects/freidok:8181/datastreams/FILE1/content 
(⚠ 180 page PDF ⚠)

It looks like that was an online survey in December 2010 of 225 
responses (Pg. 78) advertised on the German language mailing lists (I 
think this is it 
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2010-October/078162.html 
etc ). 1.8% of respondents were female.

[5] Stark, H.J. (2011), Empirische Untersuchung der Motivation von 
Teilnehmenden bei der freiwilligen Erfassung von Geodaten, 
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Präsentation

I can't find this source online. Do you have a link? It's from 2011, so 
it might not be very informative for today.


“10 years ago ~200→400 OSMers were selected somehow and surveyed” isn't 
really a smoking gun, and not very useful for making predictions about 
things *today*


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

On 19/08/2020 10:04, Simon Poole wrote:
> http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_218905.pdf references three 
> papers as justification for a 2-5% number. More recent publications tend 
> to indicate slightly higher numbers.
> 
> Simon
> 
> Am 19.08.2020 um 09:14 schrieb Rory McCann:
>> Where's your evidence/What's your source for this 3→4% figure?
>>
>> On 19/08/2020 00:56, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> sent from a phone
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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