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Re:Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disad... by devwastaken on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:14PM (#28794488)
I want a program like this to work, and this is of course an unpopular but factual statement - most of these kinds of programs define "disadvantaged" on your sex, skin color, and country of origin. This makes sense because they're the programs companies like to fund to pad their diversity portfolio.thst protects them from Title 9 lawsuits. It follows the money. But it doesn't actually target "disadvantaged" people, it targets whatever criteria they've created.

But perhaps this program is different, there's no details given for maybe good reason.

Re:Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disad... by RickWolter on Friday October 08, 2021 @10:14AM (#28799503)
In referring to "disadvantaged" we meant having a lower socio-economic background. Mainly those who are economically disadvantaged.

We started by trying to help only the formerly incarcerated but enough people reached out that we decided to try and expand to help more people.