<story><title>Increasing Rust’s Reach</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/06/27/Increasing-Rusts-Reach.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wll</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Oh. Well this is weird. They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The effort to reach underrepresented demographics seems to stem from last year&amp;#x27;s survey results [0]. Increased diversity could lead to new project-wide perspectives and overall community enrichment, if solely due to life-experience-based heterogeneity.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;State-of-Rust-Survey-2016.html#survey-demographics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;State-of-Rust-Survey-2...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>&amp;gt; But there’s a bit of a bootstrapping problem here: if we want to reach new people, we can’t do it by relying solely on the skills and perspectives of our existing community.&lt;p&gt;Cool, so they are looking to make Rust more useful by involving people with different perspectives.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; we would especially love insights from include women (cis &amp;amp; trans), nonbinary folks, people of color&lt;p&gt;Oh. Well this is weird. They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective
&lt;i&gt;Edit: explained in a comment &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14657507&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14657507&lt;/a&gt; by wll&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; non-native English speakers, people who learned programming later in life (older, or only in college, or at a bootcamp as part of a midlife career change), people with disabilities, or people who have different learning styles.&lt;p&gt;Ah yes. This is what I expected to see.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m loving what Rust is currently bringing and is going to bring to the world, I want them to be really approachable, and I want it to be used in new ways - but it really reads like they are playing with going the way of Github.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: See earlier edit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>I see it as a way of investigating possible unconscious bias or even hostility towards minorities in the Rust developer community - from easily fixable things such as male-bias in documentation (e.g. examples using male pronouns disproportionately) - to vitriolic sexist and other abuse in chat and forum groups.&lt;p&gt;Fortunately the Rust community isn&amp;#x27;t GamerGate, but if we can eliminate those attitudes sooner, then that&amp;#x27;s in Rust&amp;#x27;s long-term interests.</text></comment>
<story><title>Increasing Rust’s Reach</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/06/27/Increasing-Rusts-Reach.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wll</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Oh. Well this is weird. They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The effort to reach underrepresented demographics seems to stem from last year&amp;#x27;s survey results [0]. Increased diversity could lead to new project-wide perspectives and overall community enrichment, if solely due to life-experience-based heterogeneity.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;State-of-Rust-Survey-2016.html#survey-demographics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;State-of-Rust-Survey-2...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>&amp;gt; But there’s a bit of a bootstrapping problem here: if we want to reach new people, we can’t do it by relying solely on the skills and perspectives of our existing community.&lt;p&gt;Cool, so they are looking to make Rust more useful by involving people with different perspectives.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; we would especially love insights from include women (cis &amp;amp; trans), nonbinary folks, people of color&lt;p&gt;Oh. Well this is weird. They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective
&lt;i&gt;Edit: explained in a comment &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14657507&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14657507&lt;/a&gt; by wll&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; non-native English speakers, people who learned programming later in life (older, or only in college, or at a bootcamp as part of a midlife career change), people with disabilities, or people who have different learning styles.&lt;p&gt;Ah yes. This is what I expected to see.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m loving what Rust is currently bringing and is going to bring to the world, I want them to be really approachable, and I want it to be used in new ways - but it really reads like they are playing with going the way of Github.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: See earlier edit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>Awesome.  I see now that this context is two links away on the main page.&lt;p&gt;Its particularly interesting to note that the respondents gave a figure for LGB that falls within most estimates for population percentage (and hence doesn&amp;#x27;t form an underrepresented group here).</text></comment>