[vlc-devel] Summer of Code: why you shouldn't whine/complain...

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mardi 21 avril 2009, Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:30:07AM +0530, Rohit Yadav wrote :
> > I find j-b's remarks regarding *criteria for selection* quite 
upsetting:
> > >  - Nationality.
> >
> > *?*
>
> Why, we tried to diversify nationalities and not stay with the usual
> European ones, how is that a bad thing?
>
> > >  - Being a woman (that didn't occur, but would have been a plus).
> >
> > *?*
>
> This isn't new, VLC hasn't had any feminine devs and one of the
> recurrent topics in SoC discussions is about how to get women in
> open source projects.
> I don't see how you can reproch that to us.

I do. Not everybody agrees with the -american- idea of affirmative 
action/positive discrimination.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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