SPI Advisors and Gender Imbalance (was Re: Spi-general Digest, Vol 159, Issue 2)

2019-12-17 Thread Philippe Cloutier
e is a lack of feminine presence. But I expelling productive males would be a costly solution to that, if it can be one. I never heard about advisor creating any kind of imbalance (though I must say I was also unaware of their existence). That being said, I have

Re: Spi-general Digest, Vol 159, Issue 2

2019-12-10 Thread Katherine Mcmillan
; more balance between projects (why is the Debian project leader always > > an advisor?) > > I do not see balance between projects (whatever that means) as a goal. > Nor would I consider gender imbalance as a problem per se. To discuss > genders, the problem I could see is a lack of feminine presence. But I > expelling productive males would be a costly solution to that, if it can > be one. > > I never heard about advisor creating any kind of imbalance (though I > must say I was also unaware of their existence). > > > That being said, I have no strong opinion on this, though if we don't > publish a list of current advisors, as seems to be the case, I would > tend to support abolition. > > > > > [...] > > -- > Filipus Klutiero > http://www.philippecloutier.com > > > > -- > > ___ > Spi-general mailing list > Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org > http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general > > > End of Spi-general Digest, Vol 159, Issue 2 > *** > ___ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general