Rich, Myrle – both of you made great points. I especially think non-code contributions are critical and generally go unrecognized. They are equally as important.
Regarding gathering data about individuals being nominated, perhaps sending a survey to the PMC Chairs to gather the stats, would that be reasonable? I am just trying brainstorm an effective way to gather data around who is being left out and associated reasons. Dinesh > On Apr 12, 2019, at 6:22 AM, Myrle Krantz <my...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 3:32 PM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > >> Your suggestion of surveying non-committer Github contributors certainly >> has merit, but, having tried to gather that kind of data in the past >> (ie, actual contact info for contributors to an open source project, >> based on Github names), it's not particularly easy, as even the people >> that list their email address on Github (which is not everyone, by a >> long shot) consider it pretty spammy to receive surveys. >> > > Also, focusing on github contributions would leave out people who provide > customer support. And documentation and graphics might not compare > appropriately in size with code contributions either. But non-code > contributors is one of our biggest problem-areas IMHO. > > Best, > Myrle --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org
