This sounds like a very interesting role. What are the steps to apply? You can check some of my portfolio as a frontend/fullstack engineer here: https://dribbble.com/demount
He's well known for almost torpedoing Lerna by committing an insane proprietary license where he called ICE and Palantir fascists who aren't allowed to use Lerna, and included into that any companies who ever do work for ICE or Palantir, which included Microsoft. Microsoft in response had to get to work dropping Lerna from all of its repositories, but instead managed to convince a different maintainer to boot Jamie off the Lerna team. While he was doing all of this he had the gall to call Babel and Lerna HIS personal projects. He wrote stuff like (paraphrasing) "I will not allow Palantir to use my projects." Multiple other maintainers of these projects had to point out to him that these were, literally, not his projects. At the time that he did this he wasn't even the maintainer or core contributor to Lerna. Long story short I will never support anything this guy does. It is incredibly irresponsible to put him anywhere near the levers of power of any significant project or to give him power over employees in a company.
The examples you’ve mentioned are quite egregious and I understand how you would hold a negative opinion about such efforts. However, I’d argue they come from leaders in a lot of organizations not understanding why inclusivity is actually important, let alone how to implement it.
The scope of creating a workforce with more representation is not small and probably requires long term planning, constant feedback, and buy-in from stakeholders on all fronts.
Companies who only want to appear inclusive are bound to take unilateral, drastic measures in order to meet an observable target without considering the higher order effects.
Basecamp’s approach is just avoiding the problem by pretending it doesn’t exist. Employees who felt unwelcome at work won’t suddenly be happy when they can’t even talk about it. Power to make changes will be concentrated at the top with people apparently determined to keep the status quo.
