Hey all Finally got around to posting information about the DISC and our recent meeting to the OSMF wiki: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Diversity_and_Inclusion_Special_Committee
I also was chatting with Martin Dittus, who has done a lot of research on HOT http://martindittus.info/, for his insight on how to approach the survey work. Thought I'd share his thoughts. > I don’t have quite the right specialisation for this, but can offer some > general reflections based on the above. Regarding filling in gaps, a) > Surveys. Might be worth to simply review what old & recent surveys are > available, and (if you want to run your own) how they phrased these kinds of > questions. I imagine Yu-wei might have good perspectives on survey design if > needed - her approach might actually already be described in the paper. b) > there is of course survivorship bias there in any such survey - it won’t tell > us why people dropped out. For that I’d recommend more ethnographic > approaches, people who’ve accompanied the community and have seen/heard > stories. C) generally I suspect that a lot of the work that is being asked > for has already been done, and it’s simply not been collated and given > visibility. It might be worthwhile to eg review all the documents linked in > that Diversity wiki page above and see what kind of recommendations the > authors make. Broadly speaking I suspect the committee’s time might be well > spent not trying to reproduce the most recent stats, but instead simply > finding succinct articulations of known specific issues; ie a kind of > visibility & strategy-setting agenda This echoes a lot of the thoughts during our first meetings of the DISC -- there's a lot existing to draw on, and what's the most we can make with it. -Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron _______________________________________________ Diversity-talk mailing list Code of Conduct: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity/MailingList/CodeOfConduct Contact the mods (private): diversity-talk-ow...@openstreetmap.org
