Some things we did on CouchDB that I think could work for other projects: - Started a lot of discussions (some private, some public) regarding people's conduct on IRC, bug trackers, mailing lists etc (moving people to a more "yes, and" culture, encouraging friendly and open communication, particularly from people with a lot of visibility and reputation in the project) - Pushing for an "it's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask for permission" culture - Create a diversity statement (communicates to potential community members what our values are) - Create a Code of Conduct (communicates that we're serious about protecting people) - Create a set of bylaws (communicates the project power structure and how to gain access to it) - Explicitly (via bylaws and project mailing list creation and other activities and communications) recognise merit in *non-technical* contributions (for example, marketing, community development, design)
I see that a lot of this is already covered by your notes! On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 at 21:58 Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > It's been a while since my last update as I've been away. I'm now starting > to pick things up again so please see below for a brief update. > > *Women in Big Data* > The WIBD group asked for a speaker to present to their members in the San > Francisco area. Kathy Saunders responded and this event is being called An > Evening with the Apache Software Foundation - “The Benefits of Being Open” > > It has been changed from a presentation to a panel discussion made up of 3 > female ASF committers. The event will take place tomorrow 9th November 2016 > and details can be found here. > > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-benefits-of-being-open-tickets-28846382306 > > Good luck with the event and I'll try and get some feedback on it as > another event may be planned if this one is successful. > > *Dataworks Summit 2017* > I've had are request about the Dataworks Summit 2017 in Munich. Their CFP > is open and they are wanting to attract more women to this event so would > like to encourage them to submit speaking proposals. > > The deadline for submissions is 11th November. > > http://dataworkssummit.com/munich-2017/ > > *Hackbright Academy* > Luciano Resende kindly volunteered to do a presentation for the Hackbright > Academy in San Francisco. I don't think that this talk has been organised > yet so am following up with them about it. > > *Committer Survey* > Thanks to everyone that has given me feedback, ideas and general comments > on this. I now have the final version of the survey prepared and ready to > send out to the committers mailing list. We are in the process of setting > up some LDAP authentication to ensure that only committers can access the > survey weblink. > > One of the main concerns about the survey was privacy so the survey itself > will be completely anonymous. > > Almost all of the responses will be consolidated and reported as > statistics, however there is one question where the person taking the > survey can give an opinion or enter comments. As quotes can sometimes be > very useful, (especially if we are seeing common themes), I have added a > section for the person to give their permission (or not) for us to quote > their comments from this question. We still won't know who the person is, > only that we can quote them if they say 'Yes'. > > I'm hoping that the survey can go out this week. It will run for 2 weeks > so we will be collecting responses during Apachecon EU and maybe able to > provide some snapshot data at the conference. Based on this timing we are > hoping to have the full set of results available by the end of November. > > *General Diversity Approach and Strategy* > I haven't had much time to update this on the wiki but once the committer > survey is complete I will be able to perhaps tailor it based on the results. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/Diversity+Strategy+Ideas > > I'm still interested in getting feedback and ideas from anyone about ways > to develop the strategy and actions we can take to help encourage diversity. > > Please feel free to let me have any feedback, comments and ideas. > > Thanks > Sharan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
