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39	39	**Molly de Blanc** (sitting board member, not a candidate this year) is [[looking for greater ethnic diversity>>url:https://opensource.org/node/919||rel="__blank"]]. I agree, and I am unfortunately another old white guy and can't help it. I can claim to be a religious minority in the U.S. (ethnically Jewish, Secular Humanist).
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41		-There's also gender diversity, Molly, good to see some women on the board. This year and last have been years of Woman Power for me. I am privileged to be partner of the inspiring Valerie Gilbert-Perens since the summer of '91, and with her parent of Stanley. Stanley is now 17 and a state-certified search-and-rescue and firefighting volunteer, working the Napa fire and Berkeley ambulance calls, and graduating high school with his EMT certificate. Most of my customers for //Legal Engineering// are woman corporate attorneys, and there is the amazing [[All Woman Defense Team>>url:https://perens.com/2017/11/04/about-the-lawsuit/]] (except for one lonely first-year associate) helping me with my lawsuit. A lot of my work over the past few months on //Open Research Institute// has been to develop an organization to support a woman who develops space communication systems, and when she's not doing that she plays in an orchestra, and is a mom too! All of these women are amazing, and no man can claim these women are //less //than him in any way. I remain interested in how to get more women involved in Open Source and also in Amateur Radio (where there seems to be at most 15% female participation). I wrote an essay, [[The Empathy Gap, and Why Women are Treated Badly in Open Source Communities>>url:https://perens.com/2016/01/01/the-empathy-gap/]] a few years ago. In that piece I present a theory that you may find plausible.
	41	+There's also gender diversity, and [[**Laura Getano**>>url:https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI+Board+of+Directors/Board+Member+Elections/Gaetano2018]] has some things to say about that. I wrote an essay, [[//The Empathy Gap, and Why Women are Treated Badly in Open Source Communities//>>url:https://perens.com/2016/01/01/the-empathy-gap/]] a few years ago. In that piece I present a theory that you may find plausible.
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	43	+This year and last have been years of Woman Power for me. I am privileged to be partner of the inspiring Valerie Gilbert-Perens since the summer of '91, and with her parent of Stanley. Stanley is now 17 and a state-certified search-and-rescue and firefighting volunteer, working the Napa fire and Berkeley ambulance calls, and graduating high school with his EMT certificate. Most of my customers for //Legal Engineering// are woman corporate attorneys, and there is the amazing [[All Woman Defense Team>>url:https://perens.com/2017/11/04/about-the-lawsuit/]] (except for one lonely first-year associate) helping me with my lawsuit. A lot of my work over the past few months on //Open Research Institute// has been to develop an organization to support a woman who develops space communication systems, and when she's not doing that she plays in an orchestra, and is a mom too! All of these women are amazing, and no man can claim these women are //less //than him in any way. I remain interested in how to get more women involved in Open Source and also in Amateur Radio (where there seems to be at most 15% female participation).
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43	43	I'm trying to find something to talk about with the other candidates, but there's not much there. Just vanilla things like they want to increase membership and funding. OK, that's obviously good for most organizations, but what are we going to //do //with it? I'd encourage those folks to go back to their pages and write more about //policy.// Please. There //is //a lot of policy that we should be working upon.
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45	45	== Open Cars ==