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Posted to diversity@apache.org by Shane Curcuru <as...@shanecurcuru.org> on 2019/05/09 21:36:15 UTC
FOSS efforts in measuring diversity & inclusion
Along with re-running our own committer survey, there are plenty of
resources and existing frameworks to consider for what or how we might
want to approach research questions around D&I.
- The CHAOSS community - including participants from across FOSS
organizations - now has a D&I working group:
https://github.com/chaoss/wg-diversity-inclusion#chaoss-diversity-and-inclusion-working-group
Some of their frameworks are valuable to review, to give us a kick start
in defining specific inclusion areas we want to research or explore
building materials in: events, communications, leadership, etc.
- Outreachy is a paid internship program I keep hearing great things
about; they manage intern applications and stipends and rely on open
source projects that need developers to provide mentoring, much like
GSoC does (but on a different scale / different focus on interns).
https://www.outreachy.org
I haven't heard many people here talking about Outreachy; it would be
great to put together a one-pager to let projects know about it, in case
any of them wanted to sign up to mentor.
- Open Source Diversity is a simple but useful list of some other
independent programs working in different groups:
https://opensourcediversity.org
It's mostly useful for people who want to learn more about various
FOSS-related D&I programs out there. Many of them wouldn't be directly
applicable at the ASF, but some of the programs other FOSS groups run
are interesting to see how they do it. Figuring out ways to distill
some of those ideas, and present them in an Apache Way kind of context
would be useful for our projects that want to do more.
--
- Shane
ComDev PMC
The Apache Software Foundation
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Re: FOSS efforts in measuring diversity & inclusion
Posted by Matt Sicker <ma...@apache.org>.
On 2019/05/09 22:47:14, Shane Curcuru <as...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote:
> In terms of Outreachy, it feels like we need someone to writeup the
> details that would make it easy for a PMC to figure out how to work with
> Outreachy - explaining the concepts, suggesting ways to make their
> schedule fit with typical Apache project methods, etc.
I have experience with Outreachy. I mentored two Outreachy interns last round in the Jenkins project, and I'm about to mentor two more in this current round. If you'd like, I could write up some details on how it works from the mentor perspective. I can ask my coworker who is our coordinator on Outreachy about the details from that side as well.
Also, I've seen that the git project is also on Outreachy.
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Re: FOSS efforts in measuring diversity & inclusion
Posted by Shane Curcuru <as...@shanecurcuru.org>.
Joan Touzet wrote on 5/9/19 5:47 PM:
> Hey Shane,
>
> On 2019-05-09 17:36, Shane Curcuru wrote:> Along with re-running our own
> committer survey, there are plenty of
>> resources and existing frameworks to consider for what or how we might
>> want to approach research questions around D&I.
> [snip]
>
> Thanks for posting about these here. I've mentioned CHAOSS elsewhere (I
> think it was on members@) and talked about Outreachy at length during my
> ApacheCon Montreal talk on D&I last year. I'd love to see us get
> involved in both more deeply. I also mentioned the Recurse Center, who
> have some simple processes and beahvioural changes that I feel would do
> well here, given our current philosophies.
Oooh, I forgot about the Recurse center! While they have a very
different model than we do (much of their collaboration is in person for
example) it was really interesting to read and really think about their
social rules, and how they can be more welcoming in that situation.
https://www.recurse.com/social-rules
In terms of Outreachy, it feels like we need someone to writeup the
details that would make it easy for a PMC to figure out how to work with
Outreachy - explaining the concepts, suggesting ways to make their
schedule fit with typical Apache project methods, etc.
> Outreachy is especially noteworthy, as they've measurably increased
> diverse contribution to the Linux kernel in a way that was accepted by
> that (notoriously reactionary) community. By any metric, this is a
> success - and is a great counterexample to people who believe that
> "casting the net wider" translates to "lowering your standards."
Reading the past years of Linux kernel reports, it was amazing to see
that Outreachy interns showed up in a very measurable way there. That's
impressive both compared to the historical norms in the past kernel
culture (unwelcoming to many people in general), and compared to the
fact that Outreachy committers showed up as a block of contributions
vis-a-vis the major corporations too.
> My slides, an audio recording, and a full talk transcript are online,
> and I'll keep linking them until people get sick of it:
>
>
> https://speakerdeck.com/wohali/building-and-sustaining-inclusive-communities
>
> https://feathercast.apache.org/2018/09/29/building-and-sustaining-inclusive-communities-joan-touzet/
> https://wohali.dreamwidth.org/55736.html
>
> The flipside to the Outreachy story is that the Linux kernel community
> could be, well, more welcoming. So could we. I am eager to get that
> discussion started.
>
> -Joan
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- Shane
Director & Member
The Apache Software Foundation
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Re: FOSS efforts in measuring diversity & inclusion
Posted by Joan Touzet <wo...@apache.org>.
Hey Shane,
On 2019-05-09 17:36, Shane Curcuru wrote:> Along with re-running our own
committer survey, there are plenty of
> resources and existing frameworks to consider for what or how we might
> want to approach research questions around D&I.
[snip]
Thanks for posting about these here. I've mentioned CHAOSS elsewhere (I
think it was on members@) and talked about Outreachy at length during my
ApacheCon Montreal talk on D&I last year. I'd love to see us get
involved in both more deeply. I also mentioned the Recurse Center, who
have some simple processes and beahvioural changes that I feel would do
well here, given our current philosophies.
Outreachy is especially noteworthy, as they've measurably increased
diverse contribution to the Linux kernel in a way that was accepted by
that (notoriously reactionary) community. By any metric, this is a
success - and is a great counterexample to people who believe that
"casting the net wider" translates to "lowering your standards."
My slides, an audio recording, and a full talk transcript are online,
and I'll keep linking them until people get sick of it:
https://speakerdeck.com/wohali/building-and-sustaining-inclusive-communities
https://feathercast.apache.org/2018/09/29/building-and-sustaining-inclusive-communities-joan-touzet/
https://wohali.dreamwidth.org/55736.html
The flipside to the Outreachy story is that the Linux kernel community
could be, well, more welcoming. So could we. I am eager to get that
discussion started.
-Joan
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