I totally agree with that. Gender is not so important. A bio field would be more useful. And people can always write whatever they want in bio, like gender and job.<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Leonardo Cunha</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/9 <a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
totally, lets not put gender, work, etc.<br>
<br>
Avatar, name (optional), and website, and bio is enough in my opinion,<br>
and then make them editable...cool...<br>
<br>
Jon<br>
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nathan Eady <<a href="mailto:eady@galion.lib.oh.us">eady@galion.lib.oh.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> Francis Bond <<a href="mailto:bond@ieee.org">bond@ieee.org</a>> writes:<br>
><br>
>> do we really need to ask for gender?<br>
><br>
> Not really, no.<br>
><br>
> Then again, we don't really *need* to ask for job or country or home<br>
> page or avatar, either.<br>
><br>
> There's a balance to strike.<br>
><br>
> On the one hand, people like to have some kind of identity associated<br>
> with their account beyond just the username. Artists should be able<br>
> to get *some* kind of credit for their contributions to the library,<br>
> and letting them put a little bit of personal information on their<br>
> profile is one way to do a little bit of that.<br>
><br>
> On the other hand, it would certainly be possible to go too far and<br>
> turn the thing into Yet Another Redundant And Totally Gratuitous<br>
> Social Networking Site, which would be a real shame.<br>
><br>
> Personally, I think the current amount of detail is just about right,<br>
> but I don't feel strongly either way about the inclusion of the gender<br>
> field specifically. I mean, between the avatar and the full name and<br>
> the home page link, there's plenty of room to disclose one's gender,<br>
> if it seems important, even without having a gender field as such.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Nathan Eady<br>
> Galion Public Library<br>
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