Meritocracy or Do-ocracy - why diversity is still hard and what can we do

Meritocracy or Do-ocracy - why diversity is still hard and what can we do https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/ca39da15-3ddf-4cc5-9370-64eabcc72b88 A lot of open source project is led by meritocracy. However, we all agree that this may not be the best model to encourage diversity in the community. Recently there has been a rise of do-ocracy, which means anyone and stand up and do it. Is this the best alternative we can have? Are there downfalls? Goal: This talk can provoke thoughts about what is a better leadership model for open-source projects. We have come a long way to improve diversity and inclusion of the open-source ecosystem but the battle does not stop here. Hopefully, by providing more information and concerns about different types of open-source leadership models, it can help the audience to improve the model in their own project or help those who want to set up new projects a better place to start. Target audiences: Anyone who is involved in any open-source project, as a leader or participant. This talk is also useful for company leadership who wants to start an open-source project or make an existing project open-source. Speaker: Cheuk Ting Ho, Track: Community devroom, Room: UA2.114 (Baudoux), When: Saturday 3 February 2024, 15:45–16:15 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2024 event page, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “Meritocracy or Do-ocracy - why diversity is still hard and what can we do” by Cheuk Ting Ho, FOSDEM 2024. Original recording: 2024/ua2114/fosdem-2024-2310-meritocracy-or-do-ocracy-why-diversity-is-still-hard-and-what-can-we-do.av1.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:04:03 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch Meritocracy or Do-ocracy - why diversity is still hard and what can we do https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/ca39da15-3ddf-4cc5-9370-64eabcc72b88 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.