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

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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  • (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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