Joan Touzet wrote on 5/9/19 5:47 PM: > Hey Shane, > > On 2019-05-09 17:36, Shane Curcuru wrote:> Along with re-running our own > committer survey, there are plenty of >> resources and existing frameworks to consider for what or how we might >> want to approach research questions around D&I. > [snip] > > Thanks for posting about these here. I've mentioned CHAOSS elsewhere (I > think it was on members@) and talked about Outreachy at length during my > ApacheCon Montreal talk on D&I last year. I'd love to see us get > involved in both more deeply. I also mentioned the Recurse Center, who > have some simple processes and beahvioural changes that I feel would do > well here, given our current philosophies.
Oooh, I forgot about the Recurse center! While they have a very different model than we do (much of their collaboration is in person for example) it was really interesting to read and really think about their social rules, and how they can be more welcoming in that situation. https://www.recurse.com/social-rules In terms of Outreachy, it feels like we need someone to writeup the details that would make it easy for a PMC to figure out how to work with Outreachy - explaining the concepts, suggesting ways to make their schedule fit with typical Apache project methods, etc. > Outreachy is especially noteworthy, as they've measurably increased > diverse contribution to the Linux kernel in a way that was accepted by > that (notoriously reactionary) community. By any metric, this is a > success - and is a great counterexample to people who believe that > "casting the net wider" translates to "lowering your standards." Reading the past years of Linux kernel reports, it was amazing to see that Outreachy interns showed up in a very measurable way there. That's impressive both compared to the historical norms in the past kernel culture (unwelcoming to many people in general), and compared to the fact that Outreachy committers showed up as a block of contributions vis-a-vis the major corporations too. > My slides, an audio recording, and a full talk transcript are online, > and I'll keep linking them until people get sick of it: > > > https://speakerdeck.com/wohali/building-and-sustaining-inclusive-communities > > https://feathercast.apache.org/2018/09/29/building-and-sustaining-inclusive-communities-joan-touzet/ > https://wohali.dreamwidth.org/55736.html > > The flipside to the Outreachy story is that the Linux kernel community > could be, well, more welcoming. So could we. I am eager to get that > discussion started. > > -Joan -- - Shane Director & Member The Apache Software Foundation --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org
