GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes
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Originally posted by hf_139 View Post
Transgender people are 0.1 to 0.6% of the population. World wide.
I know at least three transgender people in the higher ranks of Gnome, so unless Gnome has 3000 developers, they are OVERrepresented, not underrepresented.
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
It's more than just transgender. It's "Activate more diverse, under-served, female, transgender, and younger users and creators worldwide". It's about getting more people from more backgrounds to use GNOME software. Look at it this way, if GNOME was a room with 100 people you'd look around and see 85 white guys from Europe and North America. The 15 people left are women, transgender, youths, and men who aren't from NA/EU. That's not a whole lot of diversity so the people in GNOME look around the room and they think to themselves, "We have worse diversity and demographics than the MAGA movement". It also means that they live in an echo chamber. There's nobody different enough to speak out about different ideas. The few that are different aren't willing to go against the echo due to potential harassment by existing GNOME fellows like Emmanuele Bassi.
Once you see GNOME from that perspective, DEI can be a great thing for them to have. More people from more places and backgrounds can mean a less homogeneous environment and less of an echo chamber.
The ironic thing about all of this is that, globally, white people are the actual minority so the 85 white people in GNOME are technically already DEI hires and they'll be replaced by the majority. DEI can be rather funny when you look at it globally instead of locally.
People dislike DEI because having a need for DEI highlights just how racist and bigoted our societies still are. A lot of people against DEI are against it because they're not racist and they assume more people think like they do. They have no idea what Mr. Mouse was going on about. Perspective bias.
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This is like a perverse Tourette's, except that people with real Tourette's have their vocabulary degenerated to a single word "fuck" and y'all have your vocabularies degenerated to a single word "bigoted".Last edited by intelfx; 08 October 2024, 10:33 AM.
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View PostThe ironic thing about all of this is that, globally, white people are the actual minority
Almost nobody goes out of their way to hire white people specifically. They do because they're qualified. It's not their fault the others suck at tech or whatever else needed. Get over it.
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Originally posted by EspadaV8 View Post
I wouldn't trust Lunduke if he told me the sky was blue, and I definitely won't be blessing his site with a view.
I'm taking a shot in the dark here, but I'm guessing you definition of "toxic political extremism" is probably something to do with trying to reach out to under represented groups? In which case, I also hope it does some good and they continue to invest in those areas.
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Originally posted by Britoid View PostThe OSS community is toxic as fuck, look at the recent Godot drama.
1) Make politically divisive statement fully knowing it's divisive.
2) Block anyone who calls you out including people that fund the project at platinum tier on all platforms.
3) Call them horrible evil racists for simply telling you to keep politics out of the project.
4) They pull the funding, fork the project, and keep developing it without you.
5) Harass the new project that just wants to be politics and virtue signaling free.
6) Profit????
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