Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source

Nerval's Lobster writes: Diversity remains an issue in tech firms across the nation, with executives and project managers publicly upset over a lack of women in engineering and programming roles. While all that's happening on the corporate side, a handful of people and groups are trying to get more women involved in the open source community, like Women of OpenStack, Outreachy (which is geared toward people from underrepresented groups in free software), and others. How much effort should be expended to facilitate diversity among programmers? Can anything be done to shift the demographics, considering the issues that even large, coordinated companies have with altering the collective mix of their employees?

Comments

FUCK OFF DICE

[Anonymous Coward]

Serious, SJW bullshit. Gimme a break.

Re: FUCK OFF DICE

[narcc]

You make it clear that your problem isn't with feminism or diversity. You just want to protect your own interests. You unfairly benefit from the status quo. You're terrified that you won't be able to survive if faced with a little competition in the job market.

Pitiful.

Re:Step One: get out of the way

[narcc]

I'm impressed so many people completely missed the point. It's almost as if you don't want to understand the issue...

Re:Step One: get out of the way

[narcc]

Amazing...

This is an excellent example of the kind of intensely rational discourse you'll find in open source projects. Nothing but substance here. Why, if you don't feel welcome in a community that focuses exclusively on technical merit and produces posts with such infallible logic, well, surely you're the one with the problem.

Re:How about more offensive public mailing lists?

[Darinbob]

How about you stop thinking of SJW as a dirty word? No one is advocating that you lose your job or privilege status.

Re:No, just no.

[AmiMoJo]

Can you even name 1 single barrier faced by women trying to get in tech ?

Being told that girls are not interested in CS by teachers and parents. The "resume test" (identical applicants, one with female name and one with male name). Unwanted attention and comments in the workplace. The kind of bullshit we see on the LKML, that even some men won't put up with. The wage gap (yes, it's real, even after you account for absolutely everything). Brogrammers. I could go on.

Re:Step One: get out of the way

[RoLi]

The sort of adolescent behavior you're defending not only contributes nothing, but is actively harmful to any project.

Absolutely wrong.

When you respect those that have contributed something (= Meritocracy) you get contributors that feel respected and are therefore willing to contribute.

If you turn it into some SJW-convention where every idiot can get brownie-points based on his race, gender or perversion, then you may attract a lot of useless SJWs but you will lose the actual contributors because they no longer get respected because they are not "diverse" enough.

Get it through your head: We don't want you, we don't need you, you are parasites that are poison in every organization. You are not just useless, you are actually harmful.

Go away and die.

Re:Given the quality of comments on this article

[KGIII]

Heh... We had engineers and programmers making six figures but I'm sure you'll lie and say you're not only worth that but earn more than that.

You're dismissed. Your preconceived notions do not match reality and reality will not conform to your ideals but you'll still whine. I repeat, fuck off back to your basement. Let us know when you've actually done something. Until then, stay out of the way and stop harassing those who do, who can, or are trying to.