Re:Code of Merit: A meritocratic approach to project managem...
by VonGallifrey on Thursday September 27, 2018 @03:30AM
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His statement came very surprising after years of beeing a different opinion. He just changed overnight I guess? Also his statement contained both UTF-8 and ASCII quote characters which is at least an indication that this was not one person writing it.
"Worthy Goal" Has that worked anywhere in practice? Who is underrepresented right now and why? Do we know?
The type of diversity archived by a CoC like this is litteraly skin deep anyways and might cost you diversity of thought. We already see "wrong" think beeing excluded.
The way a CoC would work, I think, is hard to quantify.
Sure, it may mean that some folks rage-quit on principle, some will continue bad conduct and get themselves kicked out, some will subvert the intent of it one way or another.
But if a CoC is "successful", it will mean that gradually you'll start to see folks who were previously under-represented start to contribute. You'll see more diversity and less fear and loathing. Is that a worthy goal? Yes, for many.