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Building Hospitable Open Source Communities (Video)
This is an 11 minute excerpt from an hour-long video, contributed by long-time Slashdot user Erik Möller. This video is the moving picture equivalent of the typical Slashdot summary of a text article, complete with a link to the main article, which in this case is a video (over an hour long) at PassionateVoices.org. Erik's interviewee, Sumana Harihareswara, is also a long-time Slashdot reader who claims (admits?) that she met her husband through a Slashdot link, albeit indirectly. She's spent most of the past decade working with open source, much of it as a community leader. If you are in a leadership role in an open source community or plan to lead one someday, you may want to listen to the complete interview. Sumana has many useful things to say about how open source communities should -- and shouldn't -- be run.
I'll wait for the condensed Reader's Digest version
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Does anyone at Dice realize how much the community, in general, hates the stupid videos? How you cannot watch them in an office scenario, how you cannot get them in offline mode, how you cannot search the transcripts for information?
A "safe space" is basically politically correct bigotry and SJW code for "we want segregation and preferential treatment for certain groups."
If some special snowflake is offended at something, then it's up to that special snowflake to deal with their feels on their own terms, not for the rest of the online community to bend to their demands for special treatment because something "triggered" them.
It feels like there is a single anon coward that's getting all butthurt crying 'SJW!' at the drop of a hat.
Seems like it's the 21st century 'I'm not a racist, but...'
You ask quite a lot from an estrogen poisoned brain.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
No, I didn't watch the whole video - as soon as I heard the words "safe spaces", it was "here we go again ..."
Went back after typing the above ... "empowering people, especially the marginalized, using technology" blah blah blah "diversity efforts" blah blah blah ... Since most open source software is developed over the internet, "on the internet nobody knows you're a dog." If people become too abusive, you have several choices:
You hammer on a point too long, you turn potential supporters right off. This subject has been beaten to death lately, with the people doing the beating being the ones who are profiting from the "good publicity" associated with programs such as "coding for girls". (and the SJWs who last year were using the issue as a way to self-promote by creating a "fog of war.")
Nobody likes to be treated in a paternalistic fashion, and more and more this is what this has become. It reinforces the very stereotypes that have contributed to the problem in the first place. ("oh, girls can't do math, so we'll make a Barbie Girl version of a computer course").
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
And just last year a woman actually IN tech and not as a "community leader" released this article calling bullshit on basically everything self-aggrandizing hanger's on like this video's star claims. Empirical research shows women have an advantage somewhere between 2:1 and 4:1 in STEM fields, and current statistics put them at nearly 2/3rds of college graduates and dominating virtually every single measure of academic achievement we have.
And that's not even counting less empirical measures of power and privilege like having the power to singlehandedly form a bloodthirsty lynch mob that costs people jobs regardless of your own conduct, hypocrisy, or even truthfulness.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
are busy writing articles calling bullshit on non-coders like Sumana who do nothing but insult and degrade women by talking about how feckless and vulnerable they are.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Educate yerself, lest ye continue to look like a fool.
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