[diversity] Latest RIPE diversity numbers

Hello all,

Vesna posted an interesting link to an article on the RIPE Labs article
about diversity from a while back. Feeling inspired, I decided to look
at the numbers a little bit more.


Updated numbers
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I have extended the gender measurements to the current RIPE 76
registered attendees. Attached find a couple of graphs, as well as the
spreadsheet used to make them. The first graph looks pretty grim, but
the second one extracts out a more hopeful message. I also took the
liberty of making a projection with the matching polynomial trend
line... if that continues then we would expect to see gender parity at
RIPE 99 or so.

On the one hand needing 12 more years before we have equal attendees at
the RIPE meeting seems really long. On the other hand it could be
considered a hopeful trend. And of course, this is all just numerology,
not based on actual underlying issues!

The GitHub repository for this work was updated to include RIPE 76 and
fix the usual broken data scraping caused by cosmic-ray induced changes
to the RIPE web site.

As far as the code, I've also started to look at the names that
genderize.io is unable too guess, and manually add a few of these to our
program. For earlier meetings this is somewhat effective, although it
will be harder for later meetings as we have more attendees. So far
every name added has been a man's name, so the estimated numbers will
look less diverse after this correction; depressing but as scientists we
must try to discover the truth not what we want to see. I'll publish new
results when I get further along.



RIPE DNS working group
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RIPE is not just about people showing up. The leadership as well as the
presenters are very important. I decided to look through my own working
group, the DNS working group, and see how we have done with presenters
over the years.

The RIPE web site lists presentations from working groups going back to
around RIPE 55. I could probably troll through mailing list archives to
find older agendas, but for now I decided to limit the research there.

The highpoint for the DNS-wg was at RIPE 72, with 5 presentations by men
and 2 by women. In the 19 other RIPE meetings since then, we have had 1
presentation by a woman in 4 other meetings... all other meetings had
exclusively men on the stage.

Total presentations: 192
Total presentations by women: 6

We also had 4 panels, of which 3 did not record the participants and 1
was an all-men panel, or "manel".

It's not a good look for the DNS-wg, and I'll be talking to my co-chairs
about what we can do to improve our diversity going forward.

Cheers,

--
Shane
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