Outreachy Deadlines Are Due Next Week For Winter Open-Source Internships

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Outreachy Deadlines Are Due Next Week For Winter Open-Source Internships

For women and other select groups, the GNOME Outreachy Winter 2016 internship program has its application deadline due next week for those wishing to get involved in open-source / free software development...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Outreachy-Winter-2016-Apps

[schmidtbag]

Uh oh, here comes another misogynistic flame fest...

[L_A_G]

Uh oh, here comes another misogynistic flame fest...

Not before someone gets their pants in a twist about people not liking the idea of an internship program made specifically to exclude people based on their gender... Cause the equal treatment of people is misogyny and/or racism you know?

[schmidtbag]

Not before someone gets their pants in a twist about people not liking the idea of an internship program made specifically to exclude people based on their gender... Cause the equal treatment of people is misogyny and/or racism you know?

Such people entirely miss the point of the program, because their perspective is too narrow. In an environment of no explicit limits, treatment is rarely equal, and many people seem to fail to realize that. You don't get very far in your passions when nobody takes you seriously because of your gender, race, ethnicity, etc. Programs like this are supposed to give people (like women) a chance to build up confidence and their resume in a field where they're often turned down for superficial reasons.

You have to look at the big picture. A woman in a program like this would get gain so much more from this than a man would, and that's the point. Women are inherently handicapped, the point of this is to reduce that handicap. How is that so hard to understand? Why is that a problem?

[schmidtbag]

Women are inherently handicapped

In modern society; biologically, there's not really much of a difference when it comes to STEM fields.

[DIRT]

The thing is there is more male geniuses, but there is also more retarded males. Women are much more uniform. Basically they average out to being the same. But if you compare the top half for both guess which side is going to win on intelligence in regard to "STEM" fields?
Then you see girls getting better grades because they are pretty or some other bs where they get lots of help because teachers feel they must save the womenz... Yeah I can see why some people get mad. (Gee its almost like some people observe they get handicaps everywhere IRL)

Everyone needs to stop trying to accomplish equal outcome.

Btw 50% of misogynists are women.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36380247

[schmidtbag]

The thing is there is more male geniuses, but there is also more retarded males. Women are much more uniform. Basically they average out to being the same. But if you compare the top half for both guess which side is going to win on intelligence in regard to "STEM" fields?

Got a source on that? Seems pretty BS to me (both sides of it). Keep in mind, anything that happened in the mid 1900s and earlier don't count as reliable sources, considering women were explicitly oppressed to the point that they simply weren't allowed to do certain things; it's difficult to show a shred of intelligence or value when you're not allowed to.

As with many things, the problem is people only consider their personal observations and do not account for all. In some places, women have way too high of an advantage and can abuse regulations made out for them. In some places, women score better than men on tests for STEM fields. In most places, women are paid equally and have enough workplace protection to not be harassed. But denying the fact that overall there is still an issue encouraging minorities in STEM fields is no different than denying climate change or world hunger.

[eggbert]

"For women and other select groups" i.e no straight white males. The bigotry of outreachy is amazing.

[L_A_G]

Such people entirely miss the point of the program, because their perspective is too narrow. In an environment of no explicit limits, treatment is rarely equal, and many people seem to fail to realize that. You don't get very far in your passions when nobody takes you seriously because of your gender, race, ethnicity, etc. Programs like this are supposed to give people (like women) a chance to build up confidence and their resume in a field where they're often turned down for superficial reasons.

The only problem with your assertion that women are somehow discriminated in tech and STEM is that the actual data shows an exact opposite trend. Women are actually more likely to get interviewed and hired than men with the exact same qualifications.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/13/opinions/williams-ceci-women-in-science/index.html

Because of this it's pretty clear that this only helping out people who are already in a privileged position when it comes to getting hired or becoming tenured. Women may have at one point been at a disadvantage due to sexism, but trying to assert this in 2016 is ether ill informed or just plain dishonest...

[eggbert]

Such people entirely miss the point of the program, because their perspective is too narrow. In an environment of no explicit limits, treatment is rarely equal, and many people seem to fail to realize that. You don't get very far in your passions when nobody takes you seriously because of your gender, race, ethnicity, etc. Programs like this are supposed to give people (like women) a chance to build up confidence and their resume in a field where they're often turned down for superficial reasons.

You have to look at the big picture. A woman in a program like this would get gain so much more from this than a man would, and that's the point. Women are inherently handicapped, the point of this is to reduce that handicap. How is that so hard to understand? Why is that a problem?

Bullshit. I've been in the IT field for nearly 20 years. In any of the places I've worked, the company has always bent over backwards to make sure employees are treated equally. If someone was discriminated against because of their gender, or any other personal attribute it would have been dealt with swiftly and severely. No company wants a lawsuit because of this sort of thing.

Since actual honest-to-goodness discrimination is such a rare occurrence, the grievance mongers have had to come up with crackpot theories like "micro-aggressions" in order to push their agenda. Sorry, I just don't buy it. I also don't buy the idea that women are somehow disadvantaged in the STEM fields in the western world. If anything they have an advantage over men, with all funding, scholarships, publicity etc that "women in tech" provide.

The Outreachy crowd are a bunch of halfwit racist, sexist, conspiracy theorists.