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Open source projects are by their nature intended to be welcoming, pulling in contributions from many different volunteers. But in reality, open source and the tech industry in general often lack diversity. Speaking at the Open Source Leadership Summit in February, Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer Katharina Borchert told the crowd that working to bring ethnic, gender, and skill diversity to open source projects isn't just the right thing to do because of moral grounds, it's the right thing to do to make projects more successful.
Me, I beg to differ. Pretty sure success has to do with the diversity of thought/ideas rather than genetic diversity.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 31 2017, @12:23AM (3 children)
Well even with regard to genetic diversity, those who preach it don't practice it.
Google, for example, is pretty much all White and Oriental males with a few token high-visibility spatterings here and there. And they compensate in ridiculously historically-revisionist ways, this, for example, [amazonaws.com] kinda like when Israel chose their first Black Miss Israel after being caught [forbes.com] injecting African immigrants with birth-control against their will?
And for local people, Qualcomm is almost entirely Chinks and Pajeet males with a handful of White males and spotting any kind of woman around the campus is like reading a Where's Waldo book. Though, to Qualcomm's credit, it was never loud and obnoxious about the "diversity" bullshit, especially since its two dominating ethnicities skew towards mysogyny -- and was hit by a phat lawsuit [fortune.com] proving that point.
The problem is that the people abusing the word "diversity" count on the audience making the assumption that diverse means a diversity of all. Whenever we hear the word "diversity," we should now question every instance of it...diversity of what? Diversity of whom?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @01:58AM
Trump 2022!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @02:01AM
kinda like when Israel chose their first Black Miss Israel...
Depo-Provera is prescribes to refuges and in family planning centers both in the states, Europe and Asia which ends up targeting minority groups since it's the poor and immigrants that use those centers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medroxyprogesterone_acetate#Controversy [wikipedia.org] ). It's like how sex-ed classes give away condoms mostly in poor schools seeing how the rich kids can afford pills and rubber so in practice any state running sex-ed classes is effectively working to reduce minority groups numbers.
As for the actual beauty pageants, yeah obviously political move. But why else would you have those stupid rituals if not to appease the masses?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @03:35AM
I thought Google Express was an attempt to improve diversity stats by hiring ethnic minorities for delivery jobs.