From 093b841a3b83d2cd4a6551649d92a4019950b6c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Caoimhe Chaos Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:49:26 +0200 Subject: Add a site about diversity. Intentionally kept in English. --- Diversity.mdwn | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Diversity.mdwn (limited to 'Diversity.mdwn') diff --git a/Diversity.mdwn b/Diversity.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c2fb93d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Diversity.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +[[!meta title="Starship Factory: Diversity Working Group"]] + +
This page is intentionally written in English. Please keep it that way! Thatsaid, please contribute!
+ +Starship Factory takes great pride in being a creative space. However, +creativity is greatly hindered by lack of diversity. The reasons for that are +simple: + + * People from different backgrounds have had different experiences in their + lives. + * These different experiences encourage different ways of thinking and create + different needs. + * If you limit the group of people contributing to your idea and its + development, you limit the different perspectives and requirements going + into your project, and your product will be worse. + +For these reasons, and just because it is the right thing, we want Starship +Factory to be the creative space for *everybody* in Basel and the surrounding +region. + +Resources +========= + +These are a few educational resources on diversity by a number of different +organizaitons: + + * [Unconscious Bias @ Work from the Google Ventures Library](http://ww.gv.com/lib/unconscious-bias-at-work) + * [Managing Unconscious Bias by Facebook](https://managingbias.fb.com/) + * [Unconscious Bias by McKinsey Women](https://www.facebook.com/McKinseyWomen/videos/832695730161424/) + * [Labels are for cans, not for people by Coca Cola](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84OT0NLlqfM) -- cgit v1.2.1