Niall is free to express his opinion. I'm just disappointed that no one from leadership thought it was worth replying to.
How do you think Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn from the Software Freedom Conservancy, who have helped sustain Boost for the last decade+, and also happen to run Outreachy, feel about being accused, essentially, of being criminals. You are free to say whatever you wish. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to be respectful to people you work with. On the actual subject matter: A few years ago I was unsure about these diversity programs. I felt that a pure merit-based approach was best, and that outreach for diversity should be done in other ways. The primary thing that changed my mind has been the fierceness with which some people oppose these programs and insist we do not have a diversity problem. I do not think sending a proposal to the Steering Committee is the correct way to evaluate a possible Outreachy program. I think it should be a community decision, which means it should be something discussed by the community and decided by consensus. Who is an administrator for the boost-dev list? My new email address [email protected] is not approved to post on boost-dev. I sent a reply last night which is in the moderation queue. -- The Boost Steering Committee webpage: https://sites.google.com/a/boost.org/steering/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Boost Steering Committee" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/boost-steering. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/boost-steering/3b5b49df-b590-43a5-82db-5f51c326f834%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
