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Nobody is forcing anybody to do anything, but even compared to tech itself, the open source community tends to be less diverse. I think it's fairly clear that t
by KenoFischer 8y ago
Nobody is forcing anybody to do anything, but even compared to tech itself, the open source community tends to be less diverse. I think it's fairly clear that there is a large number of qualified people who are not adequately represented in the open source community at the moment. In order to not miss out on these people, we need to a) try to get more such people involved with the open source community through outreach, etc and b) once we get to that point in our hiring, make sure that our hiring funnel is not just restricted to the subset of the population that happens to already be active in the open source community. In my opinion, the key is just to have a sufficiently wide funnel at the top to avoid injecting bias at the top of the funnel.
- chimpburger 8y agoFair enough. Women are generally less interested in engineering, so there will always be a gap. James Damore was fired from Google for writing this memo on the tech gender gap. You may find it interesting. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586-Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.html https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586-Googles-Ideo...
- FranzFerdiNaN 8y agoHe was fired for being sexist and an idiot, not for “telling the truth” as his sexist supporters would make it.
- orbifold 8y agoHe was an idiot in the sense that you obviously should not write and distribute an essay at work on a sensitive topic, if you are not an “expert” and were not asked to do so. As far as anyone reasonable could tell the facts he cited are correct but his opinions and recommendations were obviously politically incorrect.
- kiriakasis 8y agojust a bit of a factual remark: he was asked to do so. diversity and inclusion committee at google ask employees for feedback, the memo was a feedback saying "current policies do not work as expected, maybe offering more part time and family friendly jobs would allow both men and women that do want to spend time with their family to like working at google".
- kiriakasis 8y agoThe James Damore memo is quite a complex subject. The story is nuanced and at no point Damore was sexist. He goes the extra mile to say that women can be as good engineer as any man and propose a different mode to interest women in engineering jobs. I do not know if you have read the memo, but it only objective is to find a way to hire more women in an effective way. Personally I liked the proposition in the memo because it would allow for men and women to equally share child-duties. That said I do not criticize google's decision to fire him as the overwhelmingly negative exposure the memo had was quite a damage to the company...