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The Role of a Nonprofit In Open Source Development
jrepin writes KDE is among the biggest open source projects which continues to innovate and evolve with the changing times. Often we have seen this particular community create technologies ahead of its time which were later adopted by other projects. The Linux Foundation talked to Lydia Pintscher, the president of the KDE e.V., the nonprofit organization that oversees the legal and financial aspects of the KDE project, to understand the relationship between the community and the organization. We also discussed the challenge of recruiting more women to open source projects and women in the KDE community.
Slashdot simply refuses to acknowledge the issue at all.
The only issue here is the sexist mentality behind those kinds of submissions and stories. The thought of one's gender as a qualification for a position of any kind is absolutely disgusting. Same goes for discrimination based on other things such as ethnicity and age.
I've always had the impression that human rights advocates universally object to discrimination, but during the latest year I've seen many examples against this. Things like "affirmative action" (also called "positive discrimination", essentially means favoring minorities or disadvantaged groups) and "recruiting women" are marketed and viewed in a positive light by many, which is alarming. The "50/50" argument also has a worrying amount of support, but I suspect that many of the supporters simply haven't thought about it properly and aren't actually advocating sexism to achieve a 50% representation of both genders.