It's an interesting article for sure. I had no idea that CoCs were considered so important, though I suppose I've taken them for granted in most communities and avoided free-for-all type communities.
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 00:50, Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll pull out some quotes to motivate folks to click through and read. > > > Developers who are new to open source, whether young or female or both, > want better resources to help them contribute, but those resources are most > likely going to need to come from the older males who dominate open source. > That group, in turn, doesn't really see a diversity problem and is less > likely to be helpful. > > > We would be out-of-our-minds crazy to not want the software that runs the > world to be more representative of the world that runs it. > > > More than anything else, we need open source communities to not foster or > encourage jerk behavior. According to the GitHub survey, while roughly 15% > of respondents had directly experienced rudeness in their open source > communities, nearly 45% had witnessed it. As a result, 21% of people who > experienced or witnessed such behavior stopped contributing to the project. > > These quotes *do not* represent any opinion of the gist of the article. > They are for teaser purposes only. > > Kenn > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 11:40 PM Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > TechRepublic has posted an interesting article on the need for diversity in > > open source: > > > > > > https://www.techrepublic.com/article/diversity-why-open-source-needs-to-work-on-it-in-2020/ > > > > Best Regards, > > Myrle > > -- Matt Sicker <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
