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

2019-04-10 Thread Dinesh Joshi
Could I be included as well? I feel strongly about this topic and am interested in helping out. Dinesh On 2019/04/10 00:43:02, Daniel Gruno wrote: > On 09/04/2019 17.33, Gris Cuevas wrote:> > > I'd like to request the creation of a committee reporting to the President > > of the Apache Softw

Re: Revamping the ASF Committer Diversity Survey

2019-04-10 Thread Dinesh Joshi
I have a dumb question, please bear with me. Will this survey reveal answers to the following questions – 1. How diverse are the contributors that are not committers yet? 2. How diverse are the contributors being nominated for committership? I think, that will help understanding the funnel. Comm

Re: Revamping the ASF Committer Diversity Survey

2019-04-10 Thread Dinesh Joshi
> On Apr 10, 2019, at 2:45 AM, Myrle Krantz wrote: > > I'm not sure how to reach contributors who are not committers unless we're > talking about mailing the dev lists of all the projects. People have done > this before, and the backlash it generates is larger each time. Made worse > by the fac

Re: Revamping the ASF Committer Diversity Survey

2019-04-12 Thread Dinesh Joshi
Rich, Myrle – both of you made great points. I especially think non-code contributions are critical and generally go unrecognized. They are equally as important. Regarding gathering data about individuals being nominated, perhaps sending a survey to the PMC Chairs to gather the stats, would that

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

2019-05-08 Thread Dinesh Joshi
Hi Myrle, Could I be included? Here’s my original request: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/03fe51ef65b22df75adbbffda2f7940d35fd0bf2a7032b923ed8e728@%3Cdiversity.apache.org%3E Dinesh > On May 8, 2019, at 7:46 AM, Myrle Krantz wrote: > > Hey all, > > I've added this to the board agenda.

Re: ApacheCon NA

2019-05-09 Thread Dinesh Joshi
Hi Griselda, I’ll be happy to help out. Dinesh > On May 9, 2019, at 8:02 AM, Griselda Cuevas wrote: > > Ok great! - I will wait for Patricia to decide wether she can help us here. > > I was also thinking of Dinesh, who expressed interest on doing this. @Dinesh >

Re: ApacheCon NA

2019-05-10 Thread Dinesh Joshi
>> >>> *From: *Patricia Shanahan >>> *Date: *Thu, May 9, 2019 at 08:06 >>> *To: * >>> >>> I think you have excellent people in better health available, so I >>>> recommend using them. >>>> >>>> On 5/9/2019 8:02