1. To increase inclusiveness of some group of people, you educate people from this group on the subject of lisp racket computer science etc. 2. By lowering "barriers" you just welcome someone who doesn't care for the project and ruining community from inside. 3. By making a show about what project is NOT, you lying to people you want to attract, and insult people who are already in the project.
4. The is no possible reason to counterbalance the inequality, people a not equal, from the moment of conception. Society must acknowledge this inequality and build hierarchy of competence. If you want to help uneducated people - educate them. This is the only way to fight poverty unemployment and other social problems. IT communities never was biased on gender and skin color, by "fighting" imaginary unfairness you insulting every single programmer in the world. And actually creating ground for real racism and chauvinism. When I first watched RacketCon videos I was surprised by diversity of people interested in Racket, this is wonderful people united by they passion, and not they genitalia or skin color problems. This is how it should be. So I don't think racketeers need such kind of help. I think that optimization must begin from slowest parts, so, there is highly chauvinistic IT corporation like Google Apple Amazon, they desperately need such kind of help. I believe that all social justice forces must be immediately thrown at this Real Big problems. You will be able to cure millions of small projects as Racket when you get rid of the main problems in Google and Amazon. среда, 24 июля 2019 г., 12:00:32 UTC+3 пользователь Jérôme Martin написал: > In my personal life, I'm involved a lot into improving the inclusion of > women, black people and other often excluded communities into the > technology field. > From my experience, I'd say one of the most important point is not saying > "we are open, just come", but showing it through visual and overall public > communication. > Examples: > - Show the faces of speakers in conferences, in which we can clearly see > that some are black, some are women..etc > - Explicitly create some Racket events/workshops dedicated to women (this > is NOT so called "reverse sexism", please) > - This is more of a personal feeling, but I think embracing functional > programming as "a more feminine way" (because you let the program flow > naturally) compared to "imperative programming" (which sound very > masculine, in control, by shouting orders to a computer) can also be a way > to show Racket is different. > > My point is: Since our society is inherently biased and unequal, simply > saying you are open is not enough. To really counterbalance the inequality, > we need to *actively* reach a different audience. > -- 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/53fa2ae5-2d5c-466a-9b4c-7023a4164dbc%40googlegroups.com.
