Thanks for your leadership!
> On Oct 6, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Mike Perez <thin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You're all awesome, as the goal has already been met! The matching challenge > has just been raised to $16,384! > > https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack > > Status: https://adainitiative.org/counters/2014counter-openstack.svg > > -- > Mike Perez > >> On Oct 6, 2014, at 11:33, Mike Perez <thin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Some of you may already be aware of Sage Weil’s challenge to the open source >> storage community to raise the level of female participation in open source >> by >> contributing to the Ada Initiative [1]. I would also like to share about the >> Ada Initiative, and how they are helping open source communities like >> OpenStack. I’m also going to increase Sage’s original matching to $10,000 and >> extend a personal challenge [2] to the OpenStack community. If you already >> know >> about the Ada Initiative, you can donate now: >> >> https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack >> >> The current status of the campaign can be found here: >> https://adainitiative.org/counters/2014counter-openstack.svg >> >> The Ada Initiative has helped over two million women get and stay involved >> with >> open source communities. The organization helps communities understand >> a culture that needs to exist in order to successfully achieve diversity. >> While >> women make up about 30% of the software developer community, they only >> account >> for less than 10% of the open source community. >> >> On a personal level this is something that I have been actively committed to >> doing and I have had the wonderful opportunity to volunteer as a mentor at >> a couple of groups that are bringing diversity to the tech community. The >> PyLadies San Francisco group is providing exciting workshops [3] that will >> give >> a foundation to women to expand on. The Women Who Code group is preparing >> women >> for internship opportunities through the Gnome Outreach Program for Women in >> open source projects like OpenStack [4]. It's these experiences that led me >> to >> explore how the OpenStack community promotes diversity. >> >> Today the OpenStack community has been including a Code of Conduct [5] in an >> attempt to provide a safe, no harassment environment at our summits. We have >> events [6] that bring women together to talk about their achievements, to get >> others excited on what can be contributed to the community. Our participation >> in the Gnome Outreach Program for Women continues to grow with mentors eager >> to >> bring out the talent of our selected interns [7]. Things are getting better >> but we have a long way to go. The Atlanta design summit had attendance of 9% >> women, up from 7% at the previous Hong Kong summit. But this number is still >> unacceptable, and as others have echoed in the community, we must work to >> make >> it better. >> >> This is a change I want the OpenStack community to be part of. I would like >> to >> kick start things with the community with a challenge for us to raise $10,000 >> before Wednesday, Oct 8th, to which Sage and I will match that dollar for >> dollar! >> >> https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack >> >> Thanks, >> Mike Perez >> >> [1] - >> http://ceph.com/community/support-ada-initiative-challenge-open-storage-community >> [2] - >> https://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2014/10/06/support-the-ada-initiative-a-challenge-to-the-openstack-community/ >> [3] - http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesSF/events/201387112/ >> [4] - http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-SF/events/195850392/ >> [5] - >> https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/code-of-conduct/ >> [6] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzyNbvl_5g >> [7] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OutreachProgramForWomen > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
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