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Diversity Makes Projects More Successful

posted by on Thursday March 30 2017, @11:59PM   
from the McKinsey-says dept.

MrPlow writes:

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.

Source: https://www.linux.com/news/learn/chapter/open-source-management/2017/3/diverse-projects-more-successful

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• Re:Changing goalposts Re:Changing goalposts (Score: 2, Informative) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday March 31 2017, @01:44AM (2 children)

  by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday March 31 2017, @01:44AM (#486873)

  GP is probably referring to things like this:

  • How White People Corrupt Martin Luther King’s Message [patheos.com]
  • Calling all white people, part 5: Misusing MLK [blackgirlinmaine.com]

  From the second link:

  Point is, we need to stop trotting out MLK for the most part, my fellow whitefolk. Sure, there will be times it’s meaningful, particularly when we need to put someone in their place because they’re misusing MLK and need a quote more representative of MLK’s overall and long-term views. Because so many of us who are white don’t know crap about MLK. We see him as this peaceful, soft-spoken man who wanted peace above all else.

  But in truth, while he preached non-violent protest, he didn’t preach peace. He preached fundamental change. Upsetting the apple cart. Rewriting society. He wanted not just an end to racism but to reshape capitalism itself because of the way it mistreats the average worker—among other radical social views he held that would uproot most of what we’ve grown accustomed to in this country.

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• Re:Changing goalposts (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @06:18AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @06:18AM (#486955)

  By saying things like "Calling all white people", you instantly alienate a number of people. You're chastising a group of people who are connected only by the color of their skin, and that is utter garbage.

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• Re:Changing goalposts (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @10:52AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @10:52AM (#487027)

  Point is, we need to stop trotting out MLK for the most part, my fellow whitefolk.

  That is a very racist position. I am not obliged to adopt and follow any ideas by the virtue of my skin color anymore than I am obliged to do so by the color of my irises or the shape of my asshole.

  Because so many of us who are white don’t know crap about MLK.

  Ladies and gentlemen, pointless statement of the year right there. Many black people don't know crap about MLK either. There are far too many historical figures for everyone to be intimately familiar with them. It is an unreasonable standard to demand such level of understanding before agreeing with someone else's ideas, and it is bigoted to decide who has to abide by this standard based on skin color.

  But in truth, while he preached non-violent protest, he didn’t preach peace. He preached fundamental change.

  Nonsense. Radical change and peace are not mutually exclusive. The writer is conflating two entirely different meanings of the word, she says peace (aversion of conflict) but is trying to refute peace (aversion of violence).

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