Diversity in Technology and Open Source
Nobody opposes diversity of experience, perspective, skill, etc. It really is helpful to have people with different use cases testing and developing the software.<p>But &quot;diversity&quot; is being used to mean diversity of gender, ethnicity, etc., as if it matters, as if it is a reliable proxy for those other things like experience and perspective and skill, when it&#x27;s not.<p>When I was starting to program and talk to people on the net, nobody cared about my age or ethnicity or gender. I was just a name and an area code and some skills. The compiler certainly did not care about my ethnicity or gender. It was perfectly fair to me.<p>I will not go out of my way to try to rope people into my projects because they have different color skin. If people show up to help, I welcome them. I don&#x27;t particularly care about their genetic code. I don&#x27;t have any preconception about what the graphs of the ethnicities and genders of contributors would look like. Who cares? We are not our bodies and I won&#x27;t help build a future where body attributes are considered an important part of identity.