"Empowering Diversity" at IBM/Red Hat Was Failed PR Stunt
Audio: Fedora (Red Hat) Holds Diversity Event. Nobody Shows Up. Text: Fedora (Red Hat) Holds "Diversity" Event. Nobody Shows Up.
Your eyes do not deceive you. 44 views.The opening video of this Fedora / Red Hat event, with the theme of "Empowering Diversity", had been watched only 44 times. In total... since it had been published roughly a week earlier. And at least one of those views was me.
And the remainder of the videos from this event had even fewer views. By using the "44" views screenshot above, we are making this event look as popular as possible.
To put those 44 views into perspective:
Red Hat has roughly 19,000 employees. Fedora Linux has an estimated 1.2 Million users (give or take).
How many people were interested in a "Week of Diversity"? 44.
They know it was a failure. It even became inaccessible from Element (for whatever reason).
Also see: Fedora Week of Diversity (FWD) 2024 Outsourced to Proprietary Spyware of GAFAM | This Week Fedora Celebrates Diversity, But It is Pushing Proprietary Software and Censorship