On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 21:38 +1000, Michael Gratton wrote: > > After deliberately setting out to make the project more inclusive, > Python has reversed a five-year-long trend of declining number of > core > devs and it has been increasing ever since. They have for example, > in > the last three years gone from having 0 to 4 women who are core devs. > > They have also been successful in getting other projects to use more > inclusive language. For example, MongoDB initially refused to stop > using the term "master", but then relented after Python did so. > GNOME > could be in a similar position of leadership here, since it's pretty > clear /someone/ needs to be the first to do the right thing to get > others moving as well.
To make a counterpoint: The GNOME Foundation straight up hired women to hold positions of leadership, and I don’t remember seeing a big effort to become inclusive. Rather, there was “just” someone generous enough to donate big money that allowed to get people onboard and pay them for their time. I still, however, see what we’re doing right now as moral grandstanding that is rather disconnected from the people in the community. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
