On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 13:45, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 28/03/2019 13:24, Eric Covener wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 8:59 AM Naomi Slater <n...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 13:14, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>> but in practice, this isn't true. and our committer demographics > >>>> demonstrate this > >>> > >>> Then those PMCs have a f'ed up definition and measure of merit. > >>> > >> > >> but this is true for all PMCs, and indeed our board. we have dismal > >> representation for non men, non white people, etc, etc, across the whole > >> organization. so you're saying that our whole organization has a f*ed up > >> definition and measure of merit. which is precisely my point. and why I > >> started this thread. > > > > For which projects do you have demographic data about unrecognized > > contributions? This implies "all of them" which would be impressive. > > The 2016 committer survey indicated significant under-representation > from just about any category you care to think of except "white men". I > don't believe it drilled down to individual projects but while I am sure > some projects are doing better than others I am also sure all projects > could do better.
Did the survey look at contributor demographic? I suspect that is also skewed. Likewise those working in computing. > The key question for me is what can we do to improve things? > > We know that more diverse communities produce better results. It is in > our own interests to do better at this. > > How about this. Lets use some of the $ we have in the bank to get some > good advice (and potentially ongoing support) from domain experts on > what we could do to improve. (I suspect the hard part here will be > finding the right domain experts.) +1 > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
