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I tried to read about Stack Overflow and Discourse's diversity, but all I could find was these two pages of guys:

http://stackexchange.com/about/management

http://blog.discourse.org/2013/02/the-discourse-team/

Maybe you have better links? Or maybe you weren't saying that Discourse and Stack Overflow did well on diversity; merely that you think Clef will do badly too? (They seem to be doing reasonably okay right now to me.)

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His comment was accurate in that you are constraining many vectors of diversity by only hiring from a specific location, even if gender likely isn't one of those vectors.

Also, the gender of a company's management team doesn't necessarily reflect the gender distribution of all their employees. And I don't believe Discourse is owned by Stack Exchange.

https://github.com/clef/handbook/issues/69 https://github.com/clef/handbook/commit/4794bc93db32222855b4... https://github.com/clef/handbook/commit/d25a1e33adf93ad6bb89...

I just think it is super weird to be completely, categorically opposed to remote work when a primary goal is diversity. It is a severe constraint on hiring, and you want super flexible hiring to maximize diversity.

Its not weird to be completely, categorically opposed to remote work when you've found, e.g., that remote work usually doesn't work well in your environment and that, even where it does, allowing some people to work remotely and not others impacts overall morale in a way which offsets the advantages from the limited circumstances where remote work is useful.

Wanting diversity doesn't mean having unlimited willingess to sacrifice quality of work to get it.

Completely irrelevant, baiting non-sequitur. Your perception of his company's diversity does not change the validity of his point about having a less diverse pool to hire from.

> Your perception of his company's diversity does not change the validity of his point about having a less diverse pool to hire from.

It changes how seriously I would take his advice.

If someone says "I did X, and without X it would be very hard to do Y.", you would assume that they actually did Y. If you later find out that they didn't do Y, and further that the people they're advising to change their behavior and start doing X are better at Y than they were.. it's a sign you might feel free to ignore their advice.

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