The last PD class I taught at Interaccess (Toronto, Canada) was 50% female. This class was the first in a series on pd, gem, audio, electronics and microcontrollers.
On top of that of all the workshops I've taught there have always been about 30% women and more.
I don't know how many of my students keep up with PD...
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Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:
That's the thing. I have personally met one other person that uses PD. Otherwise, I know of you guys only via the list.
Another interesting demographic question would be what are the national/gender makeups. Is there a single female that, say, has a developer's account on the CVS?
There was a discussion on Ars Technica a while back about the prevalence of men in programming. Somewhere in there came up the fact that during the internet boom autism rates in Silicon Valley went up 200%. Autism effects men more than women for some reason that no one can figure out. Also, the profile of asperger's syndrome (high-functioning autism) is the same profile of a geek: anti-social, amazing ability to focus on details no one else can see.
Anyway. I count 2 Pd users and a bunch of emails that may be generated by bots.
-Ian
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
My impression is that when I started lurking on the Pd list, which was in mid-2002, the Pd crowd was already many times bigger than the jMax crowd -- say twenty times, and possibly a lot more.
Which reminds of something related: How many Pd users do you all think there are? Ciao