I don't know why I missed Mark's email, it appeared in a different thread in my Gmail.
I will take your suggestions Mark and embed them into a proposal in the new Jira board. Thank you!!! This is inspiring, motivating and amazing. On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 12:59 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > I asked the D&I folks at $dayjob for some advice / suggestions and got > back the following: > > 1. Mozilla have been doing some work in this area. It was suggested we > reach out to them to get the benefit of their experience. Anyone have > any contacts there? > > 2. Mozilla joined https://womensleadership.stanford.edu/corporate as > part of their program. > > 3. Consider sending folks to relevant conferences e.g. > http://www.womentransformingtechnology.com/ > > 4. Creating a vision for inclusion > > 5. Various workshops (psychological safety, inclusion) and other > educational sessions > > 6. Hearing from leadership on these topics. > > 7. Making the content core not extra-curricular. > > > Trying to translate what some of this might look like at the ASF: > > I think a lot of this is already covered by what Griselda set out here: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a5e7e30fad3e89547db554cf64b10d33611d4401356590bddf94b918@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E > > I think I'm getting a little ahead of things but I wanted to add some > ideas of my own in terms of what some of the above could look like while > the ideas were fresh in my mind. > > 4. One for the board. > > 6/7. D&I could/should be part of our quarterly and annual reports. It > should appear on the board agenda and in the minutes. It should be in > State of the Feather talks at ApacheCon. This sounds like we need a VP > D&I to me. I think Sam's thinking was heading in this direction when he > mentioned setting up a President's committee. > > 5. Harder to do in an organisation as virtual as ours. We could/should > certainly try and do more of this at ApacheCon. I'm fairly sure that > there are geographical concentrations of committers. We should look at > putting on specific events for committers where we have concentrations > of committers. > > 3. I'm thinking TAC+. We fund folks to attend these external events. > > Mark > > > > On 29/03/2019 22:40, Justin Mclean wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Slightly off topic but relevant. One think we could do is look at other > foundations and communities and see what they have done that has worked for > them. I come across this interesting artifice this morning [1]. Note it > includes the steps that community took to build a diverse community, I’d > also note we’ve taken some of those steps (e.g. have a code of conduct) but > perhaps shows where we could do more. They have set up a Drupal Diversity & > Inclusion team [5] that spells out it values [2] and has among other > things guide on moderation, [3] and participation [4], Now the ASF is > different to Drupal and some of those tings may not fit but it would be > useful I think to at least consider them. > > > > Thanks, > > Justin > > > > 1. > https://angel.co/blog/drupals-angela-byron-on-building-a-diverse-community > > 2. > https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/modules/drupal-diversity-inclusion/statement-of-values > > 3. > https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/modules/drupal-diversity-inclusion/drupal-diversity-inclusion-participation-moderation-1 > > 4. > https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/modules/drupal-diversity-inclusion/participation-moderation-guidelines/participant-guidelines > > 5. https://www.drupal.org/project/diversity > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > >
