You're welcome! 😊 If there are other groups that come to mind, I'll add them!
Tamao > On May 24, 2016, at 03:32, Sharan Foga <sharan.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Tamao > > All I can say is ..Wow! > > Thanks for taking the time to put down your thoughts, observations and > general knowledge on this. I'm still taking it all in - but it's clear to me > that there are some opportunities out there that we can start looking into. > > Thanks also for the offer of help on the contact side and I'll let you know > if I need some. > > Thanks > Sharan > >> On 23/05/16 21:18, tamaonakah...@gmail.com wrote: >> My personal approach has been to work with pragmatic career-focused women >> (like myself) because it helps to have some singularity of motivation. I >> can't solve all of the diversity in tech issues, but I contribute in my own >> way by running the SF Women's JUG and partnering with organizations such as >> Women who code. So from that perspective, here are my 2 cents fwiw: >> 1. Career-development angle: personally I would start with organizations >> such as Hackbright whose primary goal is to train and put women in the >> workforce. As I feel is pretty established among engineering managers and >> that Jessica McKellar emphasizes (https://youtu.be/IXnNgLmd6BM), having open >> source contributions on your resume definitely helps during the interview >> process. I'm sure that this is part of the ASF recruiting language, but I >> think it would help to actively inject that into partnership activities with >> organizations such as Hackbright. I specifically mention Hackbright as well >> because one of our VPs at my last job mentioned that among all of the code >> schools hires, he's been most impressed by the quality of Hackbright >> graduates (who are women if you didn't know). They've hired 7 Hackbright >> women to date with great results. >> >> I reached out to my Hackbright contacts and they've said that they don't >> have an open source program in place, but they are pursuing it and would >> love to consider partnerships with the ASF. I'd be happy to connect you. >> >> Women who code is also committed to getting women jobs in engineering, but >> their meetups tend to have a lot of beginners from my own experience (I've >> attended and hosted many). It may be more difficult to inject the >> "contribute" message through their meetups, but they are helpful to spread >> the word through their NL. Also, in the very least, if there isn't one >> already, there should at least be one talk on making contributions at their >> new annual conference. If you don't hear back from them, I'm happy to >> connect you again. >> >> 2. Focused sprints? >> PyCon and the Python community in general has better diversity numbers from >> what I've seen. I feel that they do a pretty good job at making the sprints >> at the event fun and inviting (https://youtu.be/hOtKgFaFcz0) for many. The >> next one is coming up (https://us.pycon.org/2016/community/sprints/) so if >> any of you are there, it may be worth checking out. They always do an intro >> to sprints session (which you can see in the above Jessica McKellar video). >> Since you're already talking with PyLadies, you can get more details on how >> they and DjangoGirls are involved in recruitment for that. >> >> WWC meetups and Railsbridge immediately introduce their women to Git and >> GitHub, but from what I know they are dealing with beginner coders so they >> don't talk about contributing to Ruby or Rails. >> >> 3. Featured projects and mentorship >> I often feel overwhelmed by the myriad of projects that get put forth and >> then I'm told "pick one and start contributing!" Personally, if you did some >> type of partnered session with Hackbright students or at a >> contribution-specific WWC Meetup, I would see value in doing a weekend >> sprint where you select a couple of key projects to walk people through the >> steps to contribute. One of Hackbright's strengths is their mentoring >> structure that continues after graduation. Perhaps having some ASF project >> owners to volunteer as mentors specifically to walk a group of new students >> through a series of sprints would be one way to go. >> >> 4. Code of Conduct and diversity ownership >> I'm glad that this thread is here because as Sarah Sharp emphasizes >> (https://youtu.be/ZCvK_7FagGE) diversity is everyone's responsibility and so >> often the minority is tasked with unpaid/after-hours work to represent a >> company's diversity or even build its diversity program. The topic came up >> at this year's women in leadership conference (http://www.wilconference.org) >> in a very disturbing way as well. We heard a good number of stories of women >> (already getting paid less than their male counterparts) being asked to put >> in extra unpaid time to go to some recruiting event to be the (female or >> female of color) face of the company. It's important to understand this as a >> shared responsibility. >> >> Finally, since I mention Sarah Sharp, let's hope that after all of this >> recruitment that we don't have the same debacle that happened with her, >> Linus, and other foul-mouthed community members >> (http://m.slashdot.org/story/188877). At least from what I've heard from >> other Linux community members, her work is greatly respected and it seems a >> loss to the technology that she is no longer contributing. Similarly, Rod >> Johnson made remarks to the Scala community a few years ago that it will >> have challenges growing healthily if they continue their trend of showing >> disrespect in the forums and strongly criticizing people who are just >> getting started with Scala (https://youtu.be/DBu6zmrZ_50). Members who >> receive a great deal of generosity during their growth are likely to pay it >> forward. >> >> Hope this helps! >> >> Best, >> Tamao Nakahara >> @mewzherder >> devrelcon.com >> >>> On May 23, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Sharan Foga <sharan.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Alex. It all helps :-) >>> >>> Thanks >>> Sharan >>>> On 23 May 2016 18:08, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Also, not specific to software: http://leanin.org >>>> >>>> HTH, >>>> -Alex >>>> >>>>> On 5/23/16, 6:36 AM, "Patricia Shanahan" <p...@acm.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Systers, http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/systers/ >>>>> >>>>> More generally, the Wikipedia article on "Women in Computing", >>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing, has some possible >>>>> resources. >>>>> >>>>>> On 5/23/2016 3:45 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: >>>>>> Hi All >>>>>> >>>>>> Just a quick update. I've sent out an email to the following groups so >>>>>> far: >>>>>> >>>>>> - Pyladies >>>>>> - Phpladies >>>>>> - Women Who Code >>>>>> - Girls Who Code >>>>>> - Black Girls Code >>>>>> >>>>>> I'll post any feedback I get. Also if anyone thinks of any other groups >>>>>> they'd like me to contact then please let me know. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> Sharan >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 20/05/16 14:26, Sharan Foga wrote: >>>>>>> Thanks very much to everyone for their feedback and support. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Rich - I will contact these groups to see what feedback and advice >>>>>>> they can give. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>> Sharan >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 20/05/16 14:05, Rich Bowen wrote: >>>>>>>> I would suggest that the most constructive thing we could do would be >>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>> reach out to pyladies and phpwomen and other similar organizations >>>>>>>> and ask >>>>>>>> for recommendations and assistance in setting up a similar entity >>>>>>>> here. >>>>>>>>> On May 19, 2016 11:18, "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. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> What do people think? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>>>> Sharan >
