[peteforde]

This looks like a great concept, but I'm disappointed to see that out of 40 people available to work with, only one person is a woman.

Surely there's an opportunity to aim higher here? There's many smart female coders that would probably love to be involved in something like this.

[mioffe]

Hi, thanks for the comment. We couldn't agree more. There's a systemic problem with STEM education that affects the entire industry.

We welcome female experts and will be doing outreach in this area. On the bright side, we've had quite a few female customers already and are happy to be contributing to righting wrongs.

-Maksim

[rrouse]

Are you also disappointed that there aren't any transgendered experts listed?

Diversity is great, yes, but can we please stop suggesting that there is sexism happening here?

[peteforde]

I didn't mention sexism or imply gender prejudice, because I don't believe that's what happened here.

I ran this by a female developer for sanity checking, and I like what she came back with: "Transgendered people don't make up 50% of the population. Women do. Female software developers make up 18% of the industry, so if you're not getting 18% women interested in working for/with you, you have a communication problem."

For the record, I have no idea how many of the people on their roster identify as transgendered, and neither do you.

[rrouse]

Edit: This is my complete misreading of the situation. I genuinely apologize.