Cloud Native Computing Foundation s Inclusive Naming Initiative Selected as Honorable Mention in the Software Category of Fast Company s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards
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Published: 14 Apr 2021 11:43 AM BdST
Updated: 14 Apr 2021 11:43 AM BdST Nearly a year after the Internet Engineering Task Force took up a plan to replace computing words like “master” and “slave,” the debate is still raging. The New York Times
Anyone who joined a video call during the pandemic probably has a global volunteer organisation called the Internet Engineering Task Force to thank for making the technology work. );
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The group, which helped create the technical foundations of the internet, designed the language that allows most video to run smoothly online. It made it possible for someone with a Gmail account to communicate with a friend who uses Yahoo and for shoppers to safely enter their credit card information on e-commerce sites.
Advocates of open source inclusiveness felt sidelined this March when the Free Software Foundation (FSF) reelected Richard Stallman to its board of directors. And this week, the FSF doubled down on this controversial decision in a statement on the election of Stallman.
This move echoes a lot of the issues that the open source community continues to reckon with, including a toxic environment toward women and an overall lack of transparency.
In this piece, we chronicle the response over the last three weeks of the tech community to this decision and talk about the very large steps the open source world still has to take to improve its governance, inclusion and openness.
April 13, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET
Anyone who joined a video call during the pandemic probably has a global volunteer organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force to thank for making the technology work.
The group, which helped create the technical foundations of the internet, designed the language that allows most video to run smoothly online. It made it possible for someone with a Gmail account to communicate with a friend who uses Yahoo, and for shoppers to safely enter their credit card information on e-commerce sites.
Now the organization is tackling an even thornier issue: getting rid of computer engineering terms that evoke racist history, like âmasterâ and âslaveâ and âwhitelistâ and âblacklist.â