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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.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @12:29AM (8 children)
Would you say these bible-thumpers of diversity are CoC-knockers?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @12:51AM (7 children)
How dare you mock, suck my trans-gendered, tran-sracial body parts, you evil white supremacist! Down with the white patriarchy. Down with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Dave Wehner, Mike Schroepfer, Lloyd C. Blankfein, Peter Oppenheimer, Mark O. Winkelman.
White genocide is a prerequisite for social progress, you fucking nazi! [youtube.com] We demand diversity -- don't you know that reason, logic and the scientific method are white and therefore racist?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @01:38AM
> ... reason, logic and the scientific method are white ...
Or, to narrow it down a little more, French. See: Rene Descartes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_the_Method [wikipedia.org]
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences (French title: Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences). The Discourse on The Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense, donc je suis" ("I think, therefore I am"), which occurs in Part IV of the work. (The similar statement in Latin, Cogito ergo sum, is found in Part I, §7 of Principles of Philosophy.)
The Discourse on the Method is one of the most influential works in the history of modern philosophy, and important to the development of natural sciences. In this work, Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism, which had previously been studied by Sextus Empiricus, Al-Ghazali[1] and Michel de Montaigne. Descartes modified it to account for a truth he found to be incontrovertible. Descartes started his line of reasoning by doubting everything, so as to assess the world from a fresh perspective, clear of any preconceived notions.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by charon on Friday March 31 2017, @01:48AM (4 children)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 31 2017, @02:55AM (2 children)
Kinda ditto here. If one searches, one can find an all-Caucasion team to to the job, or an all-Negro team, or an all-Asian team. And, if you search, you can find a diverse team. If a person is being an ass about it, he can specify one female Asian, one male black, one transgendered Caucasian, and so on. An extreme ass might even specify hair and eye colors of the team.
Diversity, in and of itself means diddly squat. You want qualified people for the job, and you don't bend the qualifications to meet stupid-assed quotas. Diversity of the mind is a really great thing to look for when recruiting for some specific project. Find an expert who was schooled in China, another who went to college in England, another from Russia, and one or more colleges in the US. THAT is intellectual diversity. And, THAT is valuable in research, engineering, or whatever.
The color of the employee's skin, or his gender, has nothing to do with a successful project. Absolutely nothing. Incompetent idiots come in all sizes, colors, genders, religions, and political persuasions. Assembling a "diverse" team of incompetent idiots isn't going to make any project successful.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @03:04AM (1 child)
Kinda ditto here. If one searches, one can find an all-Caucasion team to to the job, or an all-Negro team, or an all-Asian team. And, if you search, you can find a diverse team.
But what you can not find, is an all Runaway team. Does not work well with others. Ogles young females, thinks he is friends with African-American women. The only reason we include him is for diversity. Helps us with the unwitting-trump-supporter, maybe a vet, category of old white guys. Yes, Runaway, you only have a job due to affirmative action!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @04:08AM
Hehe, I started off reading thinking "men counter reactionary" but then I realized that could very well be true!! "We're not agist like the rest of silicon valley, look at this old white conservative dude we've got on the team!!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @01:32PM
It's parody because he used Sheryl Sandberg, thereby proving he considers her bossy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @02:24AM
Tyler Winklevoss, is that you?