>As such, correcting the biases, conscious or not, that have led to the poor diversity of our communities, must be part of our mission. Free software can easil

>As such, correcting the biases, conscious or not, that have led to the poor diversity of our communities, must be part of our mission. Free software can easily empower people that aren't part of the development community. There is no reason to think that you need a black developer to have a mail client that works for black people. If your software has actual different implication for certain demographics (e.g. languages or skin color for image recognition) then it helps to have representatives, but that's not the case for most software (beyond providing UI translation files). Your effort to "correct biases" creates a hostile environment both for those who want to help but are overrepresented and those who are underrepresented. The former because there is no enthusiasm when they say they are interested in helping and the latter because people end up assuming "diversity candidates" were brought on to fill a diversity quota, not because they were the most qualified.