On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Daniel Vimont <dan...@commonvox.org> > wrote: > > > Yes, thank you Daniel. This is an issue that weighs on me. The ASF in > general has a demographic problem, and our particular corner of it > seems particularly homogenous. > > ... > I'm a firm believer in "can't fix what you don't measure." Stack do > you have numbers from somewhere? I was looking at ways we could run an > opt-in poll to get an idea of how our community looks outside of what > I can already see in the committer and PMC ranks from meetups. > > No numbers other than: We have one female committer of a total 50 committers. We have zero female PMC members of 27 [1]. Otherwise, its an anglo eye (mine) going over contributor names in JIRA. You thinking a poll on the dev list Sean? 1. https://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#hbase-pmc > I don't think there are any fast answers to this issue, but I think > there are some things we could try doing that would help the project > generally: > > 1) We could use better student outreach. Presuming we come up with > some materials for trying to get students involved overall, we should > get a few folks go out of our way to present those materials to > student groups that try to provide space for folks who aren't in our > dominant demographic. > > If anyone has suggested forums or meetups or conferences that match the above, please volunteer. I'd be up for doing these (as would others I'm sure). > 2) Similar to #1, there are meetups (at least in my area) that try to > make things accessible and comfortable for e.g. women. We could make a > habit of presenting to these meetups in addition to our normal "big > data" themed groups. > > Hmm... I tried searching "women tech" meetup within 50 miles of the center of the universe (San Francisco) and turned up some startup thing-a-ma-jig (there is probably one of these in every town across the country since 'innovation' is going to save the world) and a ruby meeting. If any one has suggestions here, add them to this thread. > 3) I've noticed that none of the meetups or conferences where I see > HBase stuff have child care options. This doesn't only impact women, > but it disproportionately impacts them due to societal expectations. > We the community could start pushing folks to have something and we > the PMC could perhaps push this a little harder, like we do the need > for a Code of Conduct. > Asking about making this happen at hbasecon. Thanks Sean, St.Ack
