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

[Liz Barry]

Thank you for this.
The concept of meritocracy is referenced in the explanatory documents of
early open source communities (Apache, Mozilla, ...).

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On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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