On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 12:03, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Myrle Krantz wrote on Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:30 +00:00: > > The survey provides an incomplete picture and the data is imperfect. In > > addition, we need to find ways to think about diversity that do justice > > to the international nature of our foundation and our projects. > > I've mentioned it on private lists but I'll repeat it here: being an > email-centered culture, our social bugs are probably different than > those of traditional corporations. For example, it would be practically > impossible for us to discriminate against bearded people even if we > _wanted_ to, while a PMC could easily be exclusive towards people who > don't have GitHub accounts. > > > But this survey is at least an excellent argument for seeking more > > data and a deeper understanding. > > I would suggest to seek case studies: accounts by specific people who > were/are excluded. > Daniel, in the budget request we added an item to perform a user experience research. User experience research normally includes interviews and shadowing sessions that aim to study an individual's experience while trying to achieve a desired outcome. I was initially thinking on focusing the research in the experience that the under represented groups surfaced in this survey have when they *try* to contribute to an Apache project for the first time. This research is precisely what I understand you're requesting here. Happy to see you agree with that proposal. Additionally, we submitted another budget request item to redesign the current survey with the objective of bringing a better understanding of our current status. > Cheers, > > Daniel > [please Cc] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org > >
