[diversity] RIPE attendee gender trend: Update for RIPE 77 and RIPE 78

Hello all,

I don't think that I published and update of the earlier work done 
tracking trends of gender of RIPE meeting attendees. Here's one 
including RIPE 77 and RIPE 78.

Basically we look at first name and country and try to guess the 
attendee's gender based on that.

You can see the repository on GitHub which explains the approach, and 
how to use it yourself. I have a separate branch that I'll merge into 
the main page when the meeting is over, which will give final statistics:

https://github.com/shane-kerr/ripemtggender/tree/ripe78

For RIPE 78, we have a relatively lot of names that the underlying 
genderize.io tool can't even make a guess about: 26 in all, compared to 
16 at RIPE 77 in Amsterdam and 18 at RIPE 76 in Dubai. 12 of these are 
Icelandic names. I'm happy to hard-code these to the correct values if 
anyone wants to help me with that (I don't know about Tryggvi, 
Kristbergur, or Örvar, for example).

As for the overall trends, the trend of more women attending does 
continue but there does not seem to be any sharp increase. I don't think 
we can see a strong signal from when the diversity task force started 
working, although of course the data is very messy, it was not too long 
ago, and the actual numbers depend on a huge number of factors (city the 
meeting is held, quality of the guesses, hard disk prices, and so on).

I pushed the date out to find when we might have 50% women attendees at 
the meeting, and using the current eyeballed polynomial match it's 2026 
or so. While that seems not too horrible, I doubt we will follow that 
trend line and I think that 2026 is a best case. But we remain ever hopeful.

As a bonus, I also went through the membership of the RIPE Programme 
Committee since it's inception (I think), as well as the chairs of RIPE 
working groups in roughly the same period. (I used the historical RIPE 
meeting site for PC membership, and slides from the opening plenary with 
pictures of the WG chairs for the WG chair membership.) This picture 
looks bad, since it seems like women are under-represented compared to 
RIPE meeting attendees. This strikes me as an area requiring special 
attention, and it can be done; for example the IETF has taken specific 
efforts to ensure enough diversity in their leadership positions.

Anyway, I've attached a few charts so you can see for yourself.

Cheers,

--
Shane
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