[olalonde]

> They expressed that they specifically wanted to work with us as a woman-owned, queer- and POC-driven engineering firm

Why would someone's gender, sexual orientation or skin color be relevant to developing a badge? This is so weird.

[jawns]

You're right, it's not relevant to their abilities. It's relevant to the historical opportunities that such companies have had available to them.

Likely, the thinking was, "We know that in the past such firms have experienced disadvantages. In years past, bias and discrimination against them may have hurt their chances of procuring a contract like this. Recognizing that historical disadvantage, we now want to give such firms opportunities to show the world that they are every bit as capable."

[fortran77]

Cutting edge, avant garde creative companies have for centuries been staffed by non-conforming people. We could give a similar description for the staff of our consulting company.

But we don't. We just use our work and our reputation.

There's no "historical disadvantage" for a company that supports the hacker community to be full off all sorts of eccentric, non-conforming people.

[firesteelrain]

Especially since this is JLCPCB type work. It should be fairly automated.

[echoangle]

I would guess most of the work was the design, not the manufacturing.

[firesteelrain]

“ we sourced components, designed all of the hardware, wrote production test software, and organized all circuit board manufacturing, prototype manufacturing, facilitated large volume production manufacturing and logistics, and general project coordination. ”

[echoangle]

Is that supposed to contradict my response? Because I see a “designed all of the hardware” in there, that’s what I was talking about.