Pardon the tangent, but if I could just throw in my two cents about this. The Haskell community has always been helpful, kind, and inclusive of me. This was true before I came out of the closet as gay, and remained true afterwards as well. At a time when I was unable to turn to people in my personal life, I was able to turn to contacts in the Haskell community. I would not have done so if I did not explicitly know that those particular people would be safe to turn to.
Messages of explicit inclusion need not be interpreted as divisive; they do not imply exclusion of those not explicitly listed. I am grateful that minorities are explicitly called out and strongly encouraged to apply in this announcement. I am confident that haskell.org will make every effort to support and empower all applicants. -- Dan Burton On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 4:06 AM, Tillmann Vogt <tillmann.v...@rwth-aachen.de > wrote: > Am 16.03.2018 um 00:49 schrieb Jasper Van der Jeugt: > >> Lastly, we recognize that inclusion is an important part of our mission >> to promote Haskell. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from >> > > Why "strongly" encourage? Why not just encourage? > This sounds like you are in a war. I would also be very careful about > being "on a mission". This by itself would be OK if its just about being > enthusiastic. But in combination with the other text. Hm. People generally > don't like missionaries. > Also: Why are minorities explicitly named? To me this has a dividing and > discriminating effect. > I know I know. I am supposed to just ignore this. You most likely just > copied it from a template. The people with the money want control over our > minds. And we should better not complain or there will be no GSOC next > year. SCNR. > >> people in communities that are underrepresented in functional >> programming, including but not limited to women; people of color; people >> in gender, sexual and romantic minorities; people with disabilities; >> people residing in Asia, Africa, or Latin America; and people who have >> never taken part in similar programs before. >> >> Kind regards, Jasper Van der Jeugt & George Wilson on behalf of the >> Haskell.org Committee >> > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > Haskell@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell >
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