Hi Rich, I’m not sure if you included the Incubator in your analysis. We have mentions of meritoc on six pages along with references to foundation pages and links.
The pages are: guides/proposal.html guides/graduation.html guides/community.html guides/ppmc.html index.html policy/incubation.html Please provide guidance on changes to the Incubator. Regards, Dave > On Mar 22, 2019, at 8:29 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > > On 3/22/19 10:55 AM, Naomi Slater wrote many good and helpful things. > > Narrowing it down to the "action items": > >> there are two issues here: >> >> (1) improving our external communication in a way that communicates our >> desire to build an inclusive, respectful, safe, and equitable organization > > This is something that we can do immediately, in small incremental > patches, as we find that content. I have, as mentioned, taken a first > (incomplete!) step to do this on community.apache.org > > I realized this morning that one of those changes may have stepped on > Bertrand's toes, since he was the primary driver behind the Maturity > Model prose, which is used in more than just this one place. We (I?) > need to connect with Bertrand to ensure that the change doesn't get > reverted in future iterations of that content. > > Meanwhile, anyone here can start looking through the 150 (ish?) places > on www.apache.org where the term meritocra(cy|tic) is used, and > determine whether it's valuable to enhance how that is phrased. > >> (2) actually changing the way that we operate to better work towards those >> goals >> >> doing (2) is where we will continue to be met with resistance. with people >> who are upset, offended, or irritated by the work we're trying to do, the >> things we're saying, and the changes we're trying to make > > To which we should, as the Community Development PMC, push back and > insist that we're working towards the development of the community, as > per our charter, and that the changes are NOT about what was done in the > past, or a slight against who did it, but that they are intended to > welcome the next generation of our community, and build a strong tomorrow. > > Whatever we have done wrong in the past, I feel like it's really > important to focus on the future. I mean, it's *useful*, as Naomi has > said, to understand the past, I don't know about y'all, but all I have > time for is the future. > > As was illustrated brilliantly when Sharan did the community survey a > couple of years ago, the people who complained that it was a waste of > time did not, in the long run, have any right to tell us not to waste > our time in that way. And good came from it. > > The "small incremental changes" model applies. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com > http://rcbowen.com/ > @rbowen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
