> On Apr 14, 2019, at 1:02 AM, Griselda Cuevas <g...@google.com.INVALID> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Understanding diversity in potential committers is important, specially to
> know if efforts such as outreach, mentoring and "grooming" are the source
> of our low diversity.
Agreed.
This may be an uncomfortable issue to bring up, but, in general, we are not
an "outreach" organization. That is, our charter is not to foster open source,
nor do direct outreach, etc... it is to create open source software for the
public good.
Now, OF COURSE, these sorts of efforts are part of growing and maintaining
and nurturing a community, which is the key way of ensuring that the open
source software is produced and maintained.
The only reason why I bring this up is that it is unfair and somewhat
disingenuous
if we try to compare ourselves with such entities/efforts as GSOC, or OutReachy,
because those sorts of efforts are their *prime* reason for existence. We should
take clues from them, but they are not the exact models that we should follow.
Just making sure that we all are on the same page as this is concerned. Same
as with ApacheCon, for example. The ASF is not a conference producer; we do
so in order to help our projects and help us fulfill our mission. We need to
treat
all such efforts similarly, IMHO.
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