> issuing a "no politics" guideline, which was inevitably interpreted using the prevailing ideology of "if you're not with us you're against us". There is a lo

> issuing a "no politics" guideline, which was inevitably interpreted using the prevailing ideology of "if you're not with us you're against us". There is a lot more to the story than this. If you want to know more about what happened in May 2021 and the events leading up to that, there is no shortage of information about it. It was well covered at the time, even by Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/agnesuhereczky/2021/05/09/why-do-diversity-and-inclusion-initiatives-fail-the-cautionary-tail-of-basecamp/?sh=35c171375ab1 https://www.forbes.com/sites/agnesuhereczky/2021/05/09/why-d... I just searched for "Basecamp Diversity Program" and this was the first thing that popped up. I am not inside of this community, but I've been a Rails user for literally hundreds of years. (And every year it seems like we're hearing again about how the community is really drama-free, from now on, no-takebacks...) The context for me is that the employees at Basecamp apparently cared more about a company-wide diversity and inclusion program than the founders, and when rubber met road (and the severance packages came out) they were willing to quit over it. Then, 8 or 9 months later, DHH publicly took both sides on a divisive issue, and everyone who was barely involved in the conversation (myself included) thought "hey, this must be the driver for $currentDrama." When really, it seems to have been DHH driving the drama all along. I mean, just look at the No RailsConf blog post. I mean really critically look at it. What small, narrow "opportunity for drama" was in this simple e-mail from the program committee, and yet here we are again, discussing it on a front-page HN post. DHH did that. And I'm guessing that RubyCentral program committee decided there was practically zero chance that DHH would not take his opportunity on stage to say something provocative or divisive, but I'm not on the program committee so really this is where my actual real effective insight level approaches the zero limit. I'm not taking sides, but I hate the perception that Ruby community is always full of drama. Now I'm hoping that geo-political and pandemic issues can subside for long enough to go to RailsConf, looking forward to a different keynote speaker, (and I'm sure there will be absolutely no drama of any kind!)