Important: this post was the subject of quite a lot of fury on Twitter, being similar to an earlier essay by Shanley Kane of the same title https://medium.com/tech-culture-briefs/a1e93d985af0 -- a fact which the Coding Horror post initially neglected to attribute. Sara Chipps, quoted in the Coding Horror post, has also publicly expressed displeasure at how the original version of the post used her words (I'm not sure whether the edits have addressed this). And people on the autism spectrum have expressed some outrage over how they are implicitly blamed for tech sexism (something that Shanley did not do in her post, which moreover has more suggestions for what you can do).
So I submit that the first thing men (and everyone) can do in this thread is read Shanley first. Andromeda Yelton LITA Board of Directors, Director-at-Large, 2013-2016 http://andromedayelton.com @ThatAndromeda On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Peter Murray <peter.mur...@lyrasis.org>wrote: > Michele’s message below came out of the Sustaining Cultural Heritage Open > Source Software symposium last week. > > > Peter > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > From: Michele Kimpton <mkimp...@duraspace.org> > > Subject: Diversity > > Date: April 25, 2014 at 1:44:45 PM EDT > > To: sch...@googlegroups.com > > > > I thought I would share this excellent blog post on diversity in > computer programming from a colleague, given our hot topic yesterday. > > > > http://blog.codinghorror.com/what-can-men-do/ > > > > Michele Kimpton > > Chief Executive Officer > > DuraSpace organization > > mkimp...@duraspace.org > > > > > > -- > Peter Murray > Assistant Director, Technology Services Development > LYRASIS > peter.mur...@lyrasis.org > +1 678-235-2955 > 800.999.8558 x2955 >
