Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

On 20.02.2020 14:41, Samuel Thibault wrote:

>> Okay, sure. But going back to Eli's point, the development activity of
>> individual projects is determined by individual project's members, and is
>> rarely affected by the actions of the leadership.
> 
> The activity by itself, yes, but the choice of where to start a new
> project, or starting contributing an existing project, leadership does
> have a lot of importance.

What kind of choice? Contributors come and go, largely depending on 
their own needs and interests.

>> And it's a more difficult endeavor (think Mozilla-type initiatives) than
>> just releasing a document saying "hi all we don't discriminate and accept
>> everyone", which is basically stating the already obvious.
> 
>  From seeing the discussions here, it doesn't seem so obvious :/

Really? For all the shouting and stomping of feet, I haven't seen here 
any one email stating or even implying that the gender or the race of a 
contributor is somehow important, or that we'd turn somebody away 
because of it.

On the flip side, an argument is made that your initiative might make 
GNU more exclusionary because of the extra conditions on what it takes 
to be a part of it.