[Chaoss-members] diversity and open source: measure anti-diversity

Matt Germonprez germonprez at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 20:40:14 UTC 2018


Hi Daniel,

When you say anti-diversity, are you thinking of things like toxicity?

matt


On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 2:36 PM, dmg <dmg at turingmachine.org> wrote:

> I listened to the last CHAOSS monthly meeting.
>
> it seems to me that there is an underlying assumption that open source
> projects must be diverse
> and should proactively try to be.
>
> In other words, is "diversity neutral" (it does not have pro-diversity
> actions, but it
> does not have anti-diversity actions either) a non-desirable state for
> an open source project?
>
> My suggestion is, look into measuring anti-diversity too.
>
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> --dmg
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