Re: Why should D&I be a president's committee?

As I understand the current D&I committee proposal it does not impact current CoC setup. If you feel it should/should not then maybe you can provide your thoughts in the form of feedback to Myrle's initial question here. If you don't have an opinion yet maybe consider asking the proposed VP D&I

Re: Request for Reviewers for Community Track at ApacheCon NA Las Vegas

Sharan Foga wrote on 5/1/19 4:16 PM: > Hi All > > The CFP for ApacheCon NA, Las Vegas will be closing soon so I am looking for > some volunteers to help review and rate the Community track submissions. > > If you are interested in helping out then please follow the submit a talk > link to logi

Request for Reviewers for Community Track at ApacheCon NA Las Vegas

Hi All The CFP for ApacheCon NA, Las Vegas will be closing soon so I am looking for some volunteers to help review and rate the Community track submissions. If you are interested in helping out then please follow the submit a talk link to login to the CFP system for ApacheCon NA, Las Vegas and

Re: REMINDER: We need more Community Track submissions for ApacheCon NA and ApacheCon EU

Hi All At this stage we are still lacking submissions for our Community tracks in both Las Vegas and Berlin. If we don't get enough submissions then we may need to think about giving up some of our allocated slots. We need more submissions in all areas so if you are interested please don't lea

Re: ASF Application for Google Season of Docs 2019 (take 2)

Hi All An update on this. Unfortunately the ASF has not been selected as an organisation but Apache Airflow and Apache Cassandra have - so congrats to them. You can see the full list of accepted organisations here https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/ Thanks to everyo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Welcome Gris Cuevas as new PMC member

Congratulations and welcome Gris! Thanks Sharan On 2019/04/23 11:26:51, Myrle Krantz wrote: > Hey all, > > Please welcome Gris Cuevas as the newest member of the Community > Development PMC. > > Gris is helping out representing Apache at various conferences and helping > to make our own confe

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Welcome Paul Berschick as Committer

Congratulations and welcome Paul! Thanks Sharan On 2019/04/23 11:19:41, Myrle Krantz wrote: > Hey all, > > Please welcome Paul Berschick as a committer for community development. He > helped us put together the Apache Roadshow in Berlin last year, doing > everything from booking the venue to

Re: Why should D&I be a president's committee?

Hi Ross, Forgive me if this opens up the subject more than needed, but I have a question. How do you view this new Diversity & Inclusion committee with respect to the code of conduct and https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct#reporting-guidelines where a list of contacts are provid

Re: Why should D&I be a president's committee?

Good points so far. One that I believe has been missed... Board committees have 9 bosses. PMCs have potentially many more. Presidents committees have 1. In other words, a Presidents committee can get things done more quickly in difficult or controversial spaces, especially in things that do no

Re: Why should D&I be a president's committee?

The most important question is: where do the people who are currently most active doing the real work of the survey and organizing informational materials on diversity@ want to do that work? Ensuring they have a productive space and framework to work is the first thing to solve. That said... My

Re: Why should D&I be a president's committee?

On 01/05/2019 12:06, Myrle Krantz wrote: > When talking about formalizing our D&I effort, there have been essentially > three options under discussion: > > * Make it a sub-committee of ComDev. > * Make it a president's committee. > * Make it it's own PMC. > > The current proposal is to make it a

Re: Why should D&I be a president's committee?

> On May 1, 2019, at 7:06 AM, Myrle Krantz wrote: > > > (Jim, this is an area you should be able to help us shine a light on, given > your extensive experience at the ASF. You are explicitly invited to > participate.) Thx for the invite but I know that any input I'd provide to be moot. Che

Why should D&I be a president's committee?

When talking about formalizing our D&I effort, there have been essentially three options under discussion: * Make it a sub-committee of ComDev. * Make it a president's committee. * Make it it's own PMC. The current proposal is to make it a president's committee. I'm not sure what the advantages

Re: Requesting the creation of a Diversity and Inclusion committee reporting to the President

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 5:27 PM Ross Gardler wrote: > ...Com Dev we intend to move the D&I responsibility to a separate Presidents > committee I like the idea, big +1 to this. I won't get into discussions about who's holier than others, though ;-) -Bertrand ---