Re: List membership - more women

I participate in this list by reading and don't feel pressure to write 
unless I have something to say. (This message is partly because 
non-writers to the list were recently excluded from participating in a 
poll, so I'm protecting myself for the future.) The point below about 
ratio of posters to subscribers is surely correct, and perhaps the 
number of regular posters is too small to allow us to draw conclusions 
on gender?

The fact that I'm still participating after the quite testing regime of 
blast, counterblast and tiresome repetition we've been through recently 
shows how valuable I think this list (usually) is. :-)

Kate

On 06/24/13 10:14, Dan Brickley wrote:
>
>
> On 24 June 2013 10:34, Isabelle Augenstein 
> <i.augenstein@sheffield.ac.uk <mailto:i.augenstein@sheffield.ac.uk>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Dominic,
>
>     I only joined the list a few months ago, so my observations might
>     be inaccurate, but
>
>     - Overall, most discussions on the list seem to be rather
>     philosophical (What is Linked Data? Does Linked Data require
>     RDF?), which are not the kind of discussions I was hoping for when
>     I joined the list in the first place
>
>
> Quite. A lot of the initial enthusiasm about Linked Data was 
> associated with a despair some felt about the "Semantic Web" slogan, 
> which had got itself associated with overly-academic, 
> complex-KR-obsessed and other unworldy concerns. I suspect this sort 
> of churn is a natural part of the lifecycle of standards work; some 
> are starting to feel about public-lod the same way.
>
>     - My guess would be that the ratio between subscribers and people
>     posting on the list is rather low in general in addition to few
>     women being subscribed to the list (But I bet we can get some
>     statistics for that?)
>
>
>  There are just over 1000 subscribers to the list (no gender figures 
> available for those). You can see from 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2013Jun/author.html who 
> the most vocal participants are.
>
> Dan

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