"Personally, I see the D&I President's committee proposal very similarly to what the people volunteering to do the work have been actively working on here on diversity@, so I'd like to include them here."
Thank you. Nuff said. Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2019 5:48:33 AM To: bo...@apache.org; diversity@apache.org Subject: Re: What do *I* think the D&I proposal means? (NOTE: mixed private/public lists) Board resolutions to create new committees (like D&I [1]) have only a high-level description of the goals of the proposed committee. It's important for Directors to understand what they're voting on, so it's helpful to have a focused thread where we can reflect back what the Directors understand of what's being proposed. Personally, I see the D&I President's committee proposal very similarly to what the people volunteering to do the work have been actively working on here on diversity@, so I'd like to include them here. I would like to see (and have volunteered to help): - A plan and framework [2] for the work D&I volunteers want to accomplish. (Hopefully we can get more productive participants in fleshing out that draft). - Re-running the previous Committer survey [3] to get an updated baseline on our existing demographics. The last one in 2016 showed we were not representative compared to the larger software industry. - Provide FAQs [4], a terminology guide, and a framework for how we can discuss complex issues thoughtfully and with shared terms in a context that makes sense for Apache style communities. There are many useful scholarly papers and corporate guides on "How to run a D&I program". But the majority of them explicitly focus on a traditional corporate hierarchy, which fits neither our organization nor the ways our volunteer communities communicate. I hope D&I volunteers can come up with an equally good playbook that is both structured to our organization and explained in terms that fit with our communities. - Provide materials and guides from all the above that any of our projects can choose to use if they want to run their own D&I initiatives. That would be both a website as well as slide decks and other re-useable bits that projects can pick and choose from when needed. - (I hope!) Get a volunteer track chair and CFP submissions for a future ApacheCon to make a welcoming and inclusivity track alongside the always-popular Community tracks. In terms of organization, I firmly believe in what many ComDev PMC members explicitly voted to recommend to the board, which is a D&I President's committee. I look forward to voting on that resolution this coming week at our monthly board meeting. -- - Shane Director & Member The Apache Software Foundation [1] "Re: [VOTE] ComDev supports formation of D&I committee" https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.apache.org%2Fthread.html%2F86e18cde3544de1907172c7f87fa41f98285b30d564cb5d4ea95763c%40%253Cdev.community.apache.org%253E&data=01%7C01%7CRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7C8737158ed7a04fea7fe008d6d6d82e14%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1&sdata=6If7LqiUan%2Boqu4Xgmsb945UeaEOnz9PM3Dqb%2Bme2uw%3D&reserved=0 [2] "D&I Strategy Design Document, please collaborate" https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.apache.org%2Fthread.html%2Faa229e6ba144b94fa7c7e1746e3a3b97d3e7e3996fb978f24e2a602b%40%253Cdiversity.apache.org%253E&data=01%7C01%7CRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7C8737158ed7a04fea7fe008d6d6d82e14%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1&sdata=l0rt142S5Cyh9Qpre7JriYfTM0S%2B%2BZpFreRO5hbCEQM%3D&reserved=0 [3] "Revamping the ASF Committer Diversity Survey" https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.apache.org%2Fthread.html%2F8d84934791e56258948ff0dd59142fcab13c27b567220f51e6c8032f%40%253Cdiversity.apache.org%253E&data=01%7C01%7CRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7C8737158ed7a04fea7fe008d6d6d82e14%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1&sdata=uNau%2FKvPrK19ibtXSoLH2cm52FbgPhQgH4eaE8WYhvs%3D&reserved=0 [4] "FAQ and education mailing list" https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.apache.org%2Fthread.html%2Fccc30f6a7aaa424deeefe2de06580f96296948cae573cfb130e2193c%40%253Cdiversity.apache.org%253E&data=01%7C01%7CRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7C8737158ed7a04fea7fe008d6d6d82e14%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1&sdata=msVjP7iniLNqawTvM01cKwLlVlzzN6%2F%2F00xedU7xT0c%3D&reserved=0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org
