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Diversity Makes Projects More Successful

posted by on Thursday March 30 2017, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 31 2017, @10:16AM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday March 31 2017, @10:16AM (#487016) Homepage Journal

    Reactionary colorblindness? That's the world you asked for, slappy. Then you more or less got it and started asking for more than equality.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @08:55PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @08:55PM (#487325)

    > Reactionary colorblindness? That's the world you asked for, slappy. Then you more or less got it and started asking for more than equality.

    Dude, you don't even know the history of your own movement.
    Reactionary colorblindness started in the late 60s.
    It had nothing to do with "asking" for more than equality and everything to do with racists trying co-opt the language of anti-racism.