On 3/22/19 10:55 AM, Naomi Slater wrote many good and helpful things.
Narrowing it down to the "action items":
> there are two issues here:
>
> (1) improving our external communication in a way that communicates our
> desire to build an inclusive, respectful, safe, and equitable organization
This is something that we can do immediately, in small incremental
patches, as we find that content. I have, as mentioned, taken a first
(incomplete!) step to do this on community.apache.org
I realized this morning that one of those changes may have stepped on
Bertrand's toes, since he was the primary driver behind the Maturity
Model prose, which is used in more than just this one place. We (I?)
need to connect with Bertrand to ensure that the change doesn't get
reverted in future iterations of that content.
Meanwhile, anyone here can start looking through the 150 (ish?) places
on www.apache.org where the term meritocra(cy|tic) is used, and
determine whether it's valuable to enhance how that is phrased.
> (2) actually changing the way that we operate to better work towards those
> goals
>
> doing (2) is where we will continue to be met with resistance. with people
> who are upset, offended, or irritated by the work we're trying to do, the
> things we're saying, and the changes we're trying to make
To which we should, as the Community Development PMC, push back and
insist that we're working towards the development of the community, as
per our charter, and that the changes are NOT about what was done in the
past, or a slight against who did it, but that they are intended to
welcome the next generation of our community, and build a strong tomorrow.
Whatever we have done wrong in the past, I feel like it's really
important to focus on the future. I mean, it's *useful*, as Naomi has
said, to understand the past, I don't know about y'all, but all I have
time for is the future.
As was illustrated brilliantly when Sharan did the community survey a
couple of years ago, the people who complained that it was a waste of
time did not, in the long run, have any right to tell us not to waste
our time in that way. And good came from it.
The "small incremental changes" model applies.
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