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Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile
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pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) |
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Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile |
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Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:09:24 +0200 |
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:29:35AM +0000, Todor Kondić wrote:
> You know, there is a big IT department within our institution and telling
> them I will base some serious work on technologies such as GNU Guile and
> Guix did raise a few eyebrows (those not raised are probably the cause of
> their proprietors not being informed enough).
>
> […]
> Couple of notes:
>
> 1) Are there any ladies on these lists? I am *dying* to hear from them
> 2) Related to (1) ... a brief look at the maintainers who signed the Joined
> Statement gives an impression that it leans heavily to the politically
> Western hemisphere; just a comment, maybe food for thought
> 3) The RMS scandal was brought to my attention by a female coder colleague
> who previously knew nothing of RMS's, or FSF's or GNU's work in the "Open
> Source Community"; another nibble for thought
>
There have been few contributions from women,
e.g. <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2017-03/msg00042.html>
(I do not know what its status is), but I believe bringing GNU Guile
to professional use could help diversify. Thank you for that!
Regards,
Florian
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