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, @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]