# Contributor Interviews – Daniela "Trash" (now Dax)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/contributor-interviews-daniela-trash-now-dax/74900
**Category:** Site feedback
**Tags:** contributor-interviews
**Created:** [11월 27, 2017, 8:41오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/contributor-interviews-daniela-trash-now-dax/74900 "2017-11-27T20:41:06Z")
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### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [11월 28, 2017, 2:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/contributor-interviews-daniela-trash-now-dax/74900/5 "2017-11-28T02:20:22Z")

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I would add that @Trash is the MVP of plugin feedback 🙂

> [@erlend\_sh](#):
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> More exhaustive explanations for Discourse’s main features.

+1.

Pretty much everything is explained somewhere, but good explanations can sometimes be hard to find, even if you’ve been here for a while.

> [@erlend\_sh](#):
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> It took time to understand how everything works and I’m still learning.

If you ever need help with something technical let me know. You’ve helped me a bunch in the past.

> [@erlend\_sh](#):
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> in spite of my username I’m female

There are more women here than I realised. Which is great.

I completely understand why people don’t want to make an issue of their gender. However at the same time, tech-focused communities always feel inherently ‘male’. You just assume that everyone is male (and probably white, or Indian, or Chinese). It would be great if we could shift that perception. I think (in fact I know) that some people avoid getting involved in online tech-focused communities because they feel they are ‘boys clubs’.

If there were a better way of representing diversity, which made people feel comfortable and without being too ‘cute’ or ‘preachy’ about it, I think it would make communities feel even more accessible. So that people from different backgrounds / genders / ethnicities could feel like “hey there are folks just like me here too”.

Of course meta is already an inclusive community and far from the worst examples of communities with a diversity issue. In fact it’s one of the most diverse and inclusive tech-focused communities I’ve come across. But ‘Discourse’ as the leading community platform, could have an approach that incrementally improves this issue (technical or non-technical).

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