Dear Vinícius,
On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 22:44 -0300, Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira wrote:
Did I get it right?
No.
Would you put an end to my curiosity (as an external figure)?
Your assumption is that the meeting Marc attended was talking about our own institutional behaviour, but it's not. We could be perfect in how we handle contributors and still end up with a lack of diversity. Because most of the issue after you've got a strong code of conduct is inherited.
The Inkscape community inherits from the wider world some of the inherent biases in our contributor mix. We can't change the feed-in mix very much because they have all sorts of reasons from national policies to social stratification to global technological reach.
But one thing that can be done is extend extra help to people who /could/ be contributors by being proactive. But that will need deep thought into what exactly we'd be looking for as a community and how exactly to go about a pro-active invitation scheme.
I have no answers for that.
Best Regards, Martin Owens