The board can consider it or the members can do it.
> -----Original Message----- > From: gch...@gmail.com [mailto:gch...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg > Chase > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 8:28 AM > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Encouraging More Women to Participate on Apache Projects? > > I will admit to not having thought much about this topic until reading this > email thread. > > If we could consider ApacheCon Vancouver to be a sample, then it would > seem that "yes" there is a much higher ratio of men to women participating > in our events at least. > > If the organization and the board want to start considering this issue, then > measurements and baselines are a first step. > > Many companies, such as Pivotal, the one I work for, are trying to improve > their diversity in the public way. Here's an example of our diversity numbers > that we just released: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fblog.piv > otal.io%2fpivotal%2fnews%2fpivotal-releases-diversity-data-for-the-first- > time&data=01%7c01%7cRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7c19bf7a5936b044 > c1f06e08d380c35ec4%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=7 > b8YZIlosrlvdQvk9l%2b0xD1JHDAaKF%2fTAaZNPm3Wc10%3d > > The board could consider taking a census of participants in Apache: Board & > Officers, members, committers, contributors, and then releasing these > aggregate numbers on an annual basis. > > This itself would be quite notable in the open source software world. > > > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On 5/20/16, 5:26 AM, "Sharan Foga" <sharan.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>Hi All > > >>> > > >>> I'm interested in finding out how we could encourage more women to > > >>>participate on Apache projects. It's a discussion topic that came > > >>>up last week while I was at Apachecon. My understanding is that we > > >>>don't have any current strategies in place so I think it could be > > >>>good to look at gathering some ideas about how to tackle the > > >>>problem and also hear about any lessons learned from any previous > > >>>or similar strategies. > > > > FWIW, I know they are gearing up to host a "Girls Who Code" series at > > the place I work this summer. Since I am not female, I do not have an > > easy way to influence whether Open Source or Apache is discussed > > during that series. Last year I tried to recruit two of the young > > ladies who happened to use the same public transportation I do, but > > was unsuccessful. Maybe a better organized promotion from some female > > volunteers at Apache could have better results. > > > > Thanks, > > -Alex > > > >
