[Diversity-talk] "The ones we leave out" - artticle about geo/diversity/inclusivity

[Rory McCann]

Hi all,

Sharing this article about geo/diversity/conferences/etc

     https://medium.com/@sarasomewhere/the-ones-we-leave-out-1a210745fe8f

Lots of this stuff is hard, let's learn from mistakes.

> My experiences leading up to and during FOSS4G-NA 2018 made me
> finally realize that, as a community, we’ve got a problem. We’re so
> used to doing things the way we’ve always done them, but it turns out
> that the way we’ve always done things tends to leave a lot of our
> best folks out. For a community built around the idea of software
> that anyone can contribute to, it feels wrong not to make sure anyone
> who wants to participate, can.

Aside: I really wish many Europeans would stop thinking it's just
Americans and their funny PC Culture! (Example of that in this article)
There's oddles of radicals and queers and and and in Europe!

Rory