You could also see the company as being wildly off track? 1/3 is a lot of people

And which employer/CEO would support efforts to impose hiring quotas, vendor/speaker blacklists and other limitations of their leadership of their own company?

Lack of diversity is certainly a big problem in society at large, but do "minorities" really have problems getting hired in the hot developer job market? Seems to be more of a supply issue than a demand issue perhaps.

At no point did I read that any committee was involved with this issue: it was all direct interactions between individuals and management. Can you cite where you read that the DE&I committee had involved themselves with this?

> which apparently felt that it’s scope included everything that the company did

Eh? Source? Elaborate.

“Nonetheless, the DE&I council attracted significant support. More than a third of the company — 20 out of roughly 58 employees — volunteered to help. They began examining Basecamp’s hiring processes, which vendors the company works with, how Basecamp employees socialize, and what speakers they might invite to one of the all-remote company’s twice-yearly in-person gatherings.”

https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basec...

Wow. I would have thought that a DE&I committee would just make sure the company party had enough drinks and snacks.

Of course a DE&I committee would look at how the company operates. That's its entire purpose...