I'm always very proud to tell other people how much effort the clojure community is putting into this, especially compared to its size. Keep up the good work!
-- Ashton On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Sean Corfield <s...@corfield.org> wrote: > On Oct 13, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Zack Maril <thewitzb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'd like to know if selecting Clojure as my default/main programming >> language means that I'll be forced to select from a fairly homogeneous group >> of potential coworkers and miss out on the benefits of a diverse working >> environment. > One of the reasons I started ClojureBridge - http://clojurebridge.org - was > because of the lack of diversity in the visible Clojure community and I > wanted to see if we could do for Clojure what RailsBridge did for the Ruby on > Rails community. We have been running workshops successfully around the globe > now for over six months. I've been very pleased with the amount of support > ClojureBridge has received from the community, and that a strong team has > emerged to run the organization (so my involvement is now fairly minimal). It > will take time but I believe we can change the demographics of our community > if we all want to do so. > In particular, the demographics of your work environment depend almost > entirely on your hiring process and willingness to train your employees so > that's definitely an area where you can effect change if you have the will. > Sean Corfield -- http://clojurebridge.org > "ClojureBridge aims to increase diversity within the Clojure community by > offering free, beginner-friendly Clojure programming workshops for women." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
