[Diversity-talk] "The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto"

[Rory McCann]

Hi all,

Here's an interesting page & project:

     https://postmeritocracy.org/

> Meritocracy is a founding principle of the open source movement, and
> the ideal of meritocracy is perpetuated throughout our field in the
> way people are recruited, hired, retained, promoted, and valued.
> 
> But meritocracy has consistently shown itself to mainly benefit those
> with privilege, to the exclusion of underrepresented people in
> technology. The idea of merit is in fact never clearly defined;
> rather, it seems to be a form of recognition, an acknowledgement that
> “this person is valuable insofar as they are like me.”
> 
> It is time that we as an industry abandon the notion that merit is
> something that can be measured, can be pursued on equal terms by
> every individual, and can ever be distributed fairly.

Some good points & values. 🙂

Rory