[EC-NCSG] Gender, region & application form

[Tapani Tarvainen]

Dear all,

NCUC wants to make statistics about its members' gender
distribution.

Does anyone see any problems in asking that in NCSG
membership application form, probably as a radio button
type selection male/female/other?
(I'm open to allowing also "don't want to tell",
perhaps implicitly by not making the field mandatory.)

Also, if it is added, should it also apply to
organizational members' representatives?

Another item regarding the application form, it would
be nice to force consistency in country names.
At least that would make it easier to make statistics
of regional distributions.
I'm not sure how that should be made, but a drop-down
list would be an obvious possibility (even though
it'd be annoyingly long and sooner or later something will
be found missing and maybe cause even political quarrels).

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen