Unscribe ________________________________ From: Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> Sent: 20 December 2016 17:01:15 To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Results: ASF Committer Diversity Survey
My apologies for leaving out: [1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/files-dist/AnnualReports/ASFAnnualReport-FY2015-2016FINAL.pdf Best regards, Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I, for one, thank Sharan for the itch she scratched, and compliment her on > the result. > > Many talk politics (sharing their viewpoint) here in this thread, and > elsewhere in this community. If that is the itch that needs to be > scratched, then that is fine by me too... > > But in the near future (when all has been digested) we must move on. The > first survey is a good start. But it should not be the end. How can we > improve community development when we don't measure regularly. Coming to > the data collected has been (to me, sharing my viewpoint, divulging my > politics) a feel good exercise: discussions in public up front (to get > buy-in, to please the majority, the ones regarded as important, etc.) > followed by defending the why afterwards (and elsewhere). > > So, to cut to the chase: who of the officers the ASF will sponsor the > next? Who will step up and say: 'I will have the executors back and you > (the executor) can concentrate on the tasks at hand without being > distracted'? > > Annually the ASF put in a lot of effort to provide the greater community > (3rd parties, sponsors, friends, however you want to call them) with an > Annual Report [1]. This kind of repeated activity belongs in the set of > means to provide insights in the Community (Development) section.' > > Best regards, > > Pierre Smits > > ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> > OFBiz based solutions & services > > OFBiz Extensions Marketplace > http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 12/19/2016 08:36 AM, Sharan F wrote: >> > Hello Everyone >> > >> > A big thank you to everyone that has helped or participated in getting >> > the Committer Diversity Survey out, and also to all the committers that >> > responded to the survey. It has been really good to be able to collect >> > this information and see what it tells us about our committer base. >> > >> > I've loaded the main data and graphs from the survey onto the Community >> > Development wiki (see link below) >> > >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/ASF+Commi >> tter+Diversity+Survey+-+2016 >> > >> > >> > In total we received 765 responses (out of a 5861 committer base at the >> > time the survey was run) so around a 13% response rate. >> >> It would be useful to pursue Niclas' assertion that most of our >> registered committers are inactive. I'd think that if we define >> "inactive" in some measurable way, we could determine some actual >> numbers around that. >> >> Either way, though, given how anti-survey we have been in the past, 13% >> actually sounds like a pretty good response rate to me. >> >> > We also got 111 feedback comments of which 29 did not give their >> > permission to share or from quote their comments. >> > >> > I've categorised all the comments into various themes / topics with the >> > main ones as follows: >> > >> > 1. Suggestions for improvements within the ASF >> >> I look forward to seeing these. I hope that we have some things in there >> that are actionable, and that we can find volunteers to participate in. >> >> Most of the conversations that I've had with people that have led >> diversity efforts in other open source communities answer "what worked?" >> with "lots and lots of hard work, for a really long time." >> >> So, thanks so much for getting this process started again. It's long >> overdue, and we appreciate your hard work here. >> >> >> > 2. Suggestions for improvements to the survey (or any future ones) >> > 3. Thanks / positive feedback about the ASF and/or survey >> > 4. Feedback and ideas around diversity >> > >> > Next steps will be: >> > >> > * Continue to analyse the information and identify any potential >> > Community Development related actions >> > * Start discussion threads on the various themes and topics raised to >> > see if they will result in additional actions >> > * Discuss feedback and diversity ideas and if necessary, integrate >> > into diversity strategy >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >> >> >
