I don't see an issue with sharing aggregate data. Every ASF member has access to the raw data, but extracting it will be labor intensive.
- Sam Ruby On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 8:42 AM Awasum Yannick <awa...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Bertrand, > > If we really wanted to know the country/country/geographical distribution > of our committers, the most reliable way to do it is to look at the iCLA > files without displaying names of committers, just the countries and we > will know for sure how geographically diverse we are. This will answer some > key questions like "is there a diversity problem?" and comments like "Show > me the facts supporting our lack of diversity" will be dealt with. Even if > its just one aspect of diversity(geographical). > > Look at a project like https://whimsy.apache.org/, they collect all these > info and display them for all of us to consume. Can we not collect country > information from iCLAs without showing names of people? Just the countries > and display by continent. > I went looking and found these > https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/board and > https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/documents/iclas by analyzing the > Whimsy source code and checking their data sources. > > I dont have permission to view the above files but can someone confirm if > these files contain country information which we could anonymously use to > prove if we have geographical diversity problem or not? > > The last survey had a response rate of 13%. Do you think that good enough > for making decisions? We need to look for other ways to calculate our > diversity numbers. > > Thanks. > Awasum > > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:26 AM Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:17 AM Awasum Yannick <awa...@apache.org> wrote: > > > ...I was wondering if we could get country information for all > > Committers, > > > PMCs, Directors and Members and see if we can even draw some facts on > > > geographical distribution of our volunteers?... > > > > There's http://community.zones.apache.org/map.html but it only > > includes people "who have chosen to publically share their location in > > their FOAF files". > > > > You cannot use that information without people's consent, so scraping > > iCLAs is not acceptable. > > > > -Bertrand > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org
