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Autor: Antony Stone
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] Debian diversity?
On Sunday 07 April 2024 at 17:41:04, Antony Stone wrote:

> On Sunday 07 April 2024 at 17:35:53, Xenguy.fl9z@??? wrote:
> > > I note that Chandran has said that her main focus if elected would be
> > > on diversity. "In spite of spending a good amount of money on
> > > diversity, we seem to not get the expected outcome. My first task as
> > > DPL would be to revisit the existing spending pattern to analyse why
> > > and where we are going wrong,"
> > >
> > > If she wins, maybe the Devuan project can engage with her over
> > > returning to init system diversity, as much as dealing with any other
> > > sort?
> >
> > Is it clear what she means when she uses the word "diversity"?
> >
> >From that quote (which is all I know of her; I have no awareness of her
>
> general opinions / motivations or favoured causes), no.
>
> However, given (a) that she's female, and (b) the current popular usage of
> the term (as far as I'm aware of it), I've assumed that by "diversity"
> *she* means "trying to get more women involved in software development,
> and trying to stop software developers from being biased against anything
> other then heterosexual males".


Maybe I should have added "western English-speaking" in there; I'm not sure.

> It would be interesting to find out whether she in fact has a wider view on
> the topic.
>
>
> Antony.


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