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LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance

posted by martyb on Friday May 04 2018, @08:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the Nice-Big-CoC dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Rafael Avila de Espindola, one of the top contributors to the LLVM compiler toolset, has cut ties with the open source project over what he perceives as code of conduct hypocrisy and support for ethnic favoritism. In a message posted to the LLVM mailing list, de Espindola said he was leaving immediately and cited changes in the community.

LLVM project founder, Chris Lattner responded; "I applaud Rafael for standing by his personal principles, this must have been a hard decision." Lattner also insisted that "it is critical to the long term health of the project that we preserve an inclusive community."

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Monday May 07 2018, @12:30PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday May 07 2018, @12:30PM (#676620) Journal
    To give a concrete example of this:

    One of my former colleagues at Cambridge ran summer schools to give 16-year-old children an opportunity to learn computer science outside of school. He contacted a number of schools and each was allowed to send up to two children along. The first years was around 95% male. He asked the schools why this was, and received 'girls can't code' as a reply from more than one. The second year, he said that each school must send at least one girl if they sent anyone (so they could send one girl, two girls, or one girl and one boy). That year, the gender balance was around 60% female and there was no noticeable change in ability. The vast majority of the girls who attended would simply have been deselected by their schools on the grounds of gender without this policy.

    Programmes like Outreachy are attempting to provide a counterbalance to this. They can't provide girls with the same opportunities that the boys got, but they are attempting to provide some equivalence. Unfortunately, equality of opportunity isn't something that everyone agrees is a good idea.

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