[SeasonOfDocs] Meritocracy

[Jared Morgan]

I would've made the same suggestion as Cameron here, so I'm glad this was
called out early.

We don't want a term introduced in good faith that dilutes the concentrated
good that will result from this project.

On Wed., 24 Jul. 2019, 04:47 Erin McKean, <emckean at google.com> wrote:

> I agree that 'meritocracy' is a skunked term
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunked_term> at this point, and should be
> avoided.
>
> It's an interesting word in English as the original term was meant by its
> coiner to be a *criticism* of the system it described, not positive at all!
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 6:09 AM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 23/7/19 10:42 pm, Jennifer Rondeau wrote:
>> > Looks like I'm first out of the gate as SJW here -- can we please not
>> > refer to a "principle[ ...of ...] meritocracy"? It's term that's been
>> > tarnished beyond current repair in the worlds of tech generally and in
>> > FOSS especially. I appreciate the sentiment, but we can find better
>> words.
>>
>> Jennifer,
>>
>> I suspect you might be referring to derivatives of
>> https://postmeritocracy.org/ I'm fine with changing language. I feel
>> diversity which leads to effective collaboration is really important.
>> I'm saddened that the term "meritocracy" seems to have adopted such a
>> narrow definition. In my mind meritocracy should include soft metrics
>> (such as how effectively people build diverse communities).
>>
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>> Cameron Shorter
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