Excerpts from Colleen Murphy's message of 2017-10-15 11:38:47 +0200: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Flavio Percoco <fla...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > Some of you, TC candidates, expressed concerns about diversity and > > inclusiveness > > (or inclusivity, depending on your taste) in your candidacy. I believe > > this is a > > broad, and some times ill-used, topic so, I'd like to know, from y'all, > > how you > > think we could make our community more inclusive. What areas would you > > improve > > first? > > > > Thank you, > > Flavio > > > > -- > > @flaper87 > > Flavio Percoco > > > > First, we need more data. We need a better gender study that doesn't rely > on first-name analysis and takes into account non-binary contributors. We > need data on who is participating from which country (I'm reasonably sure > this exists but I haven't found it published), what language they speak, > whether they are participating in IRC meetings and why or why not (time > zone problems? language barriers?). We need data on contribution by > ethnicity. > > A major problem in the tech world is not just attracting underrepresented > contributors, but retaining them. They leave their communities or careers > because of bias problems. To my knowledge, that doesn't happen in > OpenStack, but just because I can't see it doesn't mean it's not there. A > long-term study of participation by underrepresented demographics will help > us answer this and fix it if necessary. > > We do already know that we need to attract a more diverse contributor base. > To do that, we need to expand and support outreach programs, especially > things like Outreachy. It might not be a bad idea to start an > OpenStack-specific Outreachy-type thing. We need to offer more mentors to > the program so that we can support more interns. > > We need to be friendlier to new people. You might have no idea how much a > negative interaction on your first patch or your first question in IRC can > frame your opinion of a community. A new person can't help but wonder if > they are being treated that way because they have a feminine IRC nick or > because their English wasn't good. I certainly think no one here tries to > be unfriendly but I'm sure we could all do better to keep it in mind. I > think Feilong's point about being publicly shamed for making a language and > culture mistake is especially unfriendly and an example of something we can > do better at. > > Thanks for the great question. > > Colleen
All good points, and well said. Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
