I agree with this completely. I've only met some of the people living in SoCal, and for all I know everyone up north could be as "diverse" as diverse can be.
I'm all for adding people to the group, but I don't think we can point blame regarding current issues in this direction. -Troy -----Original message----- From: David Fox <[email protected]> Sent: Thu 24-09-2009 17:56 To: Ubuntu US California <[email protected]>; Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Flaw #1 On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Mark Terranova <[email protected]> wrote: > Since our active membership does not reflect our state's diverse > population; we can only bring a limited perspective to the table. > Again - just a small temporary roadbump. I am really puzzled about that statement, for two reasons: 1) Involvement in this industry, whether that be free software and its surrounding community advocacy, is probably not going to mirror the generalized makeup of the overall community (state of California) simply because of the technical nature. Of course, I could be wrong about that. 2) It's not relevant. At least I don't think it is. After all, simply because of the nature of mailing lists, the Internet in general, we can have the most color- and race-blind community as a whole, simply because all you know (unless you physically meet the people) is their name and you can only really judge them by the quality of their posts (analogous to MLK asking people to judge based on the content of their character). Here, on the Internet and on mailing lists, all we can base our assumptions on is how well the person in question communicates, gets his/her point across, and make a decision whether one can accept or reject that position. Debian-user (and ubuntu-users too) have representation from most countries in the world (at least those that have a decent connection) and there's active participation from people all over the world. So why shouldn't a community LoCo be any different,.except for the limited geographic scope? Basically, unless you met them face to face, you couldn't make an intelligent assessment of what the racial or ethnic demographics of this group. And I still don't think it's a relevant concern. -- thanks for letting me change the magnetic patterns on your hard disk. -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
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