If this were the requirement for open source software. The only people who would use open source software would be rich, old, white, programmers. Ideas are not judged in a vacuum. The person giving the idea is judged long before the details of an idea can be considered.

The comments to Castrojo’s post have some great dialog on othering in the Ubuntu community.

castrojo:

I get a bunch of questions and mails from people who want to do great things. This is what I am recommending from now on: