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: 2) by kaszz on Friday March 31 2017, @04:53AM (1 child)
The Chief Innovation Officer ought to know how to be successful, so do the results reflect this policy?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @08:59AM
I'd like to know what stuff he is smoking to consider Mozilla currently successful. Maybe when he looked at the browser stats, he thought Mozilla's browser was named "Chrome"?