I would suggest to you that trying to be "inclusive" turns a lot of
people off, making it overall less inclusive. ie, negative gains.
Sorry, but I strongly disagree with that. GNOME's inclusiveness is the
only reason I participate as
a person of color. I've also seen a wealth of diversity in the people
coming in and building things
off of our platform during the time I've participated. Many other free
software projects that aren't
committed to inclusiveness don't get the same benefits.
Regards,
Chris
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:22 AM, Pat Suwalski <p...@suwalski.net> wrote:
On 2019-04-25 10:17 a.m., Christopher Davis via desktop-devel-list
wrote:
That connection is the problematic bit, because in some countries
slavery
wasn't all that long ago, and in some places it's never left or it
changed forms.
Doesn't change the fact that it's accurate, and is the correct
computer terminology.
If we want to be an inclusive project, it would be beneficial to use
language that do esn't scratch at scars
when we have other metaphors we can use.
I would suggest to you that trying to be "inclusive" turns a lot of
people off, making it overall less inclusive. ie, negative gains.
And I'm serious about that. If anything's been learned from the drama
on LKML last year, it's that for every one person "triggered" by
status quo, about three seemed "triggered" by forcing changes on that
front.
--Pat
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