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Associations and Gender

Chuck Reif
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It would be great to have some feedback on the use of gender in association links between individual constituents.  If you're familiar with the way associations work now, you may know that there is fairly elaborate code there to try to figure out the gender of both sides of the association and map the association types appropriately. 

Is this necessary, really?  Wouldn't Parent/Child or Sibling/Sibling work as well as Mother/Daughter, Father/Daughter, Mother/Son, Mother/Daughter and Sister/Brother, Sister/Sister, Brother/Sister, Brother/Brother?  Yes it gets a little tricky when you get into Uncles and Aunts, but maybe you just call that something like AuntUncle/NieceNephew.  Interestingly Facebook has worked hard to keep all their relationship modeling gender neutral.

Thoughts are always welcome!

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    I agree - I think gender-neutral is actually the way to go.  Oftentimes, the account in question is actually a husband/wife, anyway, so the gender is less necessary when you're looking at an account with more than one name and can (hopefully) figure out which is the father & which is the mother, or aunt/uncle, etc.
     
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    From: Tessitura Next Generation Forum [mailto:forums-nextgeneration@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Tom Brown
    Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:45 PM
    To: Christy Carlson
    Subject: RE: [Tessitura Next Generation Forum] Associations and Gender

    Chuck,

     

    I did a quick survey around the building.  And no one really cared about the Gender of the relationships.

     

    --Tom

     

    From: Tessitura Next Generation Forum [mailto:forums-nextgeneration@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Reif
    Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:25 PM
    To: Thomas Brown
    Subject: [Tessitura Next Generation Forum] Associations and Gender

     

    It would be great to have some feedback on the use of gender in association links between individual constituents.  If you're familiar with the way associations work now, you may know that there is fairly elaborate code there to try to figure out the gender of both sides of the association and map the association types appropriately. 

    Is this necessary, really?  Wouldn't Parent/Child or Sibling/Sibling work as well as Mother/Daughter, Father/Daughter, Mother/Son, Mother/Daughter and Sister/Brother, Sister/Sister, Brother/Sister, Brother/Brother?  Yes it gets a little tricky when you get into Uncles and Aunts, but maybe you just call that something like AuntUncle/NieceNephew.  Interestingly Facebook has worked hard to keep all their relationship modeling gender neutral.

    Thoughts are always welcome!




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    I agree - I think gender-neutral is actually the way to go.  Oftentimes, the account in question is actually a husband/wife, anyway, so the gender is less necessary when you're looking at an account with more than one name and can (hopefully) figure out which is the father & which is the mother, or aunt/uncle, etc.
     
    Christy
     
    Christy Carlson | Senior Sales Manager | 206.443.2210 x1003| Fax: 206.443.2379
    SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE | www.seattlerep.org | 155 Mercer Street, PO Box 900923, Seattle, WA 98109 | In Lower Queen Anne at Seattle Center
    NOW PLAYING | An Iliad Apr 9-May 16
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    From: Tessitura Next Generation Forum [mailto:forums-nextgeneration@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Tom Brown
    Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:45 PM
    To: Christy Carlson
    Subject: RE: [Tessitura Next Generation Forum] Associations and Gender

    Chuck,

     

    I did a quick survey around the building.  And no one really cared about the Gender of the relationships.

     

    --Tom

     

    From: Tessitura Next Generation Forum [mailto:forums-nextgeneration@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Reif
    Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:25 PM
    To: Thomas Brown
    Subject: [Tessitura Next Generation Forum] Associations and Gender

     

    It would be great to have some feedback on the use of gender in association links between individual constituents.  If you're familiar with the way associations work now, you may know that there is fairly elaborate code there to try to figure out the gender of both sides of the association and map the association types appropriately. 

    Is this necessary, really?  Wouldn't Parent/Child or Sibling/Sibling work as well as Mother/Daughter, Father/Daughter, Mother/Son, Mother/Daughter and Sister/Brother, Sister/Sister, Brother/Sister, Brother/Brother?  Yes it gets a little tricky when you get into Uncles and Aunts, but maybe you just call that something like AuntUncle/NieceNephew.  Interestingly Facebook has worked hard to keep all their relationship modeling gender neutral.

    Thoughts are always welcome!




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