On Jan 22, 2016, at 9:43 AM, Regina Obe <l...@pcorp.us> wrote:

> Again sorry for cutting thread.  I just get the digest.

No worries. :-)

> Ruby is under heavy threat to adopt this, but they have not yet to my 
> knowledge.  Here is the thread:

Threat?

> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004
> 
> Reading the thread requires a lot of attention and also face recognition.  So 
> I shall point out the actors and actresses in this conversation you should 
> pay close attention to:
> 
> Coraline Ada -  https://www.patreon.com/coraline?ty=h - Please give money to 
> her cause, as it's way more important than the poor folk who work to make 
> PostgreSQL better for free and never ask you for a dime

$300 a month to work on promoting diversity in open-source projects? It’s worth 
*so* much more than that.

> Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene -  
> https://twitter.com/krainboltgreene/status/611569515315507200  
> https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 
> Yes indeed he was very angered at Elia's (key Opal developer) saying gender 
> reassignment is wrong for young children, and spending like $50,000 on gender 
> reassignment is being out of touch with reality.  Like me saying smokers are 
> killing themselves and spending money on 3 packs of cigrarettes a day could 
> be better used.

I don’t follow.

> Strand McCutchen - https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/942  (wow what a 
> trooper, he's going to help Opal polish off the Contributor Convenant so it's 
> in a shape they can accept)

Looks like it went in.

  https://github.com/opal/opal/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

> Ruby Creator - Yukihiro Matsumoto
> And you must agree after seeing all the evidence that Yukihiro Matsumoto (who 
> is not even a white guy) inventor of ruby must be a jerk for not adopting 
> this wonderful thing to make people feel welcome and respected.  What awful 
> person would not.  How about me?

It depends on his reasons, I suppose. 

> Let's not forget about Meredith Patterson -  
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI53yys3dbA&feature=youtu.be&t=538  What has 
> she done for open source?
> Please ignore the two white guys in the talk, they are just white guys with 
> white guy opinions.

They are in fact both unreconstructed bigots.

Best,

David

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