On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 22:42:26 +0100, Mark wrote in message <5ba41442.4080...@signal100.com>:
> On 20/09/2018 22:23, Bruce Perens wrote: > > Open Research Institute got our first space communication project > > transferred over from AMSAT for two reasons: we had an ITAR/EAR > > avoidance plan, and the engineering managers at AMSAT (a venerable > > organization that has flown some 90 Amateur satellites since 1963) > > were inexperienced in dealing with female engineers and were (IMO > > unconsciously) egregiously rude on multiple occassions. The woman > > engineer in question is no wilting lily, and in general refuses to > > represent feminist or women's viewpoints because that isn't her > > thing. It may not be a gender issue at all, many men left the > > organization as well. > > By all means, sometimes things go too far. But often not. One example, > as you offer here, is an anecdote, not data. ..social datapoint observations that we can all learn from, are often best passed on as anecdotes. > > Those who are not on the spectrum may still underperform in human > > relations, as we've just heard from Linus. > > There's the thing, Linus did not seem to me to "underperform". As far > as I can see, he performed correctly and in the best interests of > producing high quality technical output. If his reactions were > sometimes over the top, ...then Linus underperforms in his leadership role. He has apologised. Learn, and move on. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
