Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @12:46AM (5 children)
I know that when I see a corporate website where their technical "staff" look like this:
https://www.sandstormdesign.com/sites/default/files/we-are-super-diverse.jpg [sandstormdesign.com]
that the software will be the BEST it can be!
Much better than what somebody like this:
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/portrait-of-a-man-with-geeky-glasses-on-picture-id122413538 [gettyimages.com]
could do.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday March 31 2017, @12:54AM (1 child)
I can't help but feel as though the first picture looks like it comes from a recruiting pamphlet for your local cult.
Creepy lack of personal space and those smiles. Oh god, those plastic smiles.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday March 31 2017, @01:42AM
I think those are both stock photos. Compare the first to the photos at https://www.sandstormdesign.com/who-we-are [sandstormdesign.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @01:55AM
Elsewhere on the site, you can find real employees. :-)
First, gender: The picture is 55% female. The reality is 46% female. OK, not too far off, but on opposite sides of the magic 50% number. It's even reasonable for a place that is mostly not programming. They do marketing stuff with a bit of web design.
Second, race: The picture is I suppose 33% black. The non-white portion is 33% to 55% as far as I can tell, because a couple are ambiguous. The reality is 0% black, 0 out of 26. The non-white portion also seems to be 0%.
It's funny and sad that the photo is itself racist; they feel that their own staff are too white to be seen in public.
Do as we say, not as we do, eh? It reminds me of the super-liberal Huffington Post and their hypocrisy:
https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/800055596120764416/photo/1 [twitter.com]
http://www.mediaite.com/online/people-are-really-piling-on-the-editors-at-huffpo-who-released-this-tweet/ [mediaite.com]
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/05/21/huffington-post-editor-posts-diverse-meeting-photo-twitter-sparking-social-media [foxnews.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @02:06AM (1 child)
I'm not seeing any diversity in those photos. Everyone has perfect teeth, rosy faces, and I think everyone is wearing lipstick. Where are the hillbillies? How come no one has a golden tooth? Why no midgets? What do they have against people with facial scars?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 31 2017, @11:21AM
Where are the hillbillies? How come no one has a golden tooth? Why no midgets? What do they have against people with facial scars?
Those people don't exist in our shiny, new world.