On 7/6/07, Martin Bonner <Martin.Bonner@pi-shurlok.com> wrote:
----Original Message---- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Matias Capeletto Sent: 06 July 2007 13:07 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org; boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] [IBD] Help request, A Woman's Point of View
Hi,
Joaquin's post make me realize that we are not a _truly multidisciplinary_ team. We are currently lacking a woman's point of view.
Is there any female Booster willing to help us?
Why? I mean, what is there that is specifically different about a "woman's point of view"? I can certainly see that an /international/ point of view is useful (a native speaker to get the grammer right, a non-native speaker to remove colloquialisms for example), but I really don't see the point when it comes to men/women.
I feel compelled to chime in here, being that I live in two worlds that have opposing gender imbalances - the world of programming/computer science (male dominated), and the world of dance (female dominated). And I have to say that I've definitely observed that dance communities (dance companies, classes, etc.) tend to be more lively (and perhaps even more committed and productive) if the gender imbalance is not too great. There's just something really nice about diversity, whether its gender, nationality, ethnicity, etc, in a productive environment. Maybe we're more likely to want to impress someone that is different than us, I don't know :-) Anyway, I'd really like to applaud Matias for actively trying to address the gender imbalance, since if it wasn't for the female dancers that were encouraging of my participation in dance, I wouldn't be a dancer now (and I suspect not nearly as happy a person). I think that until you start to fix the gender imbalance, you don't even realize what kind of useful feedback, opinions, and participation you might be missing out on. Just my two cents. Stjepan