Just to answer your final question about whether such a statement would increase my likelihood fo becoming involved with an open source project, the answer is no. After all, I became involved with Habari without the statement. :)

My minority status is due to age, discrimination against which in the IT field is documented both by research ( see, for example, <a href="http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/laws-government-regulations-employment/1163979-1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/laws-governmen...</a> ), and anecdotally (look around when you're with a group of programmers/designers).