Hi Gris Please see my responses inline.
On 2019/04/09 22:58:48, Griselda Cuevas <g...@google.com.INVALID> wrote: > Hi folks - I'd like to kick start the revamp of the ASF Committer Diversity > Survey. As agreed in the thread "On Meritocracy" sent to the ComDev lists > [1], we want to revamp the survey in order to inform our Diversity and > Inclusion strategy. > > @Sharan - I believe you were the lead on this effort back in 2016, so you > input here would be valuable to help us scope the effort. Here are some > questions to help us do that: > - What's been done to revamp the survey so far? What's the current status? At this stage not much. I kicked off the idea of re-running and that seemed to get consensus. I am involved a little with CHAOSS and they have a Diversity and Inclusion working group https://github.com/chaoss/wg-diversity-inclusion that is in the process of defining what metrics to collect. I was planning to initially start by doing some research about what others have done and via CHAOSS in October last year I was introduced to Emma Irwin from Mozilla and also Amy Marrich from OpenStack who were involved with their diversity and inclusion efforts. Links to their stuff is here https://s.apache.org/OVQE https://s.apache.org/sAoD We were all planning to setup a call to discuss things but that didn’t happen as some personal things came up that I needed to focus on. So the current status is that there has been no movement and if someone here wants to pick it up then that’s fine. > - What tasks are needed so we revamp the survey? To revamp the survey, some work probably needs to be done on what people want the new survey to contain. I got a lot of feedback around the wording of the original questions and some of the responses we received gave ideas for potential improvements. The gender and ethnic origin questions were the most difficult to formulate so changing these will depend how or if you want to do any comparisons with the first survey. Also a couple of questions were added that were probably not so much diversity related (eg the one about finding information...) > - What technology was used to apply the survey? The survey was done using Survey Monkey. I created an account and we had to pay to upgrade it to be able to have the potential of all 5800 committer responses. That subscription has expired now so if we needed to do it again, we’d need the upgrade. When we ran the survey the Infra team helped us setup a link so that you needed to login using your Apache ID to access the survey and prove you were a committer, then the Apache ID was dropped an nothing was collected about the person responding. > - How does someone gets access to the survey's backend? To get access to the backend, you will need the login details to the Survey Monkey account which is managed by the ComDev PMC. I think this access this data needs to be carefully managed and I see you have some ComDev PMC people on this list so they should be able to get access to these credentials. When we ran the survey we told everyone that “The data collected will be used to generate consolidated and aggregated statistics for the Apache Community Development team and the Apache Software Foundation. These details may be published as part of Apache presentations and reports, and made publicly available.” The survey was anonymous and even so, not everyone gave their permission to publish anything related to their comments so I ended up paraphrasing it so that people could get the general idea. We received a lot of feedback which I tried to consolidate into various areas. See below for the feedback we received about Diversity in general and potential survey improvements. https://s.apache.org/zVwR https://s.apache.org/iotN https://s.apache.org/dDNn We did follow up the PMCs of individual projects that were explicitly mentioned to ensure they were aware of the feedback. I hope this answers your questions and if you need any more information then please let me know. Thanks Sharan > > Once we have direction in these areas, I can help organize the timeline and > next steps. > > In the meantime, I'd love to hear ideas on topics/questions/areas that > weren't included in the 2016 edition [2], with the caveat that we won't be > able to add them all since it would result in either a very different > survey which will be hard to use to measure change or a long survey which > people won't take. > > Thanks everyone, looking forward to completing this. > > [1] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5b88a314fd28ec3753fd9aa57fdf815fe9f7a64c5f60fb00e2d25bcf@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/ASF+Committer+Diversity+Survey+-+2016 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org
