On 19/03/26 15:11, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
[ I'm sending questions quickly, but there's no urgency to answer ]Hi Sruthi, I must admit I am a bit clueless about diversity and outreach efforts in other Free Software projects. So I have absolutely no idea about how we are performing compared to others. Clearly we could improve, but are others doing better than we do? Which part of the issue is global to the Free Software world as a whole, and which part is specific to Debian? Do you have numbers to share? Are there nice initiatives in other Free Software projects that we should copy?
I am active only in Debian, so I do not have any solid idea about how things are working out in other Free Software projects. But based on whatever discussions I had with people from other projects, I would say that, while there may be a handful of projects doing good with respect to Diversity, most of the projects are in similar situation as us. Doing a best practice study of all the Free Software projects would a good initiative, something I might be interested in future, but right now, I do not have answers for that.
Not a question but a comment: related to outreach, in a recent discussion about DebConf attendance, there was a subthread about online events, and a mention of webinar-like setting. Maybe that's something that is relatively cheap to explore: - make sure that videos/slides we already produce during events are properly referenced so that it's easy to find them if someone is looking for information on a specific topic (like a Youtube channels with appropriate playlists -- I'm not actually suggesting the use of Youtube for that, or maybe I am) - produce content specifically targetted at newcomers, like higher quality "onboarding videos", with both technical and organizational content
Sounds good.
Lucas
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