Jack Firth writes: > Matthias, I ask that you please not respond to discussion about the > diversity of the Racket community by saying it's a political topic and > politics have no place here. That statement alone is political and makes > many people feel unwelcome, including me.
Likewise... and I find it troubling that I did not specify a mechanism for improving diversity, just stated that it would be nice to see it improved, and this was stated as a problem. >> Our policy has always been that everyone, absolutely everyone, is >> welcome on this technical list to discuss technical issues. We don’t >> exclude anyone. And everyone gets treated the same and gets productive >> responses if possible. In particular, politics stays off this list; it’s >> divisive enough in the rest of the world. If absolutely everyone is welcome, why is not absolutely everyone here? It does not seem to be controvercial to state that we would like more middle schoolers using Racket; indeed, this appears to be the goal of Racket 2. If we extend that logic, there is no reason we cannot wish for aiming for that level of success for other groups. I agree that programming should be absolutely for everyone, that is part of what brought me to Racket and I think it is uniquely positioned to meet that goal. I look forward to coming to RacketCon in the future, looking around, and feeling that it looks like we are achieving that dream. - Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/87muhfqj2o.fsf%40dustycloud.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
