Re: ApacheCon North America

2019-04-05 Thread Rich Bowen
y tracks available if you're looking at doing something more ambitious. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com http://rcbowen.com/ @rbowen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org

Re: ApacheCon North America

2019-04-07 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 22:40 Gris Cuevas wrote: > > > > > @Rich - would it be worth creating a D&I track and announce it broadly? My > rationale is that by creating a formal talk we could incentivize folks to > create content on the topic. I believe the Chicago Roadshow will have one > so we could

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

2019-04-10 Thread Rich Bowen
h and >>> subject to >>> the direction of the President until death, resignation, retirement, >>> removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be >> it >>> further >>> >>> RESOLVED, that the perso

Re: Revamping the ASF Committer Diversity Survey

2019-04-11 Thread Rich Bowen
gt;> >>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5b88a314fd28ec3753fd9aa57fdf815fe9f7a64c5f60fb00e2d25bcf@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E >>> [2] >>> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/ASF+Committer+Diversity+Survey+-+2016 >>> > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org > -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com http://rcbowen.com/ @rbowen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org

Re: ApacheCon NA

2019-05-01 Thread Rich Bowen
On 4/30/19 7:52 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > The call for presentations for ApacheCon North America closes in less > than 2 weeks, so I assume anyone planning a presentation has either > already submitted it, or is close to doing so. If only this were so. History says that 50% of submissions

Re: ApacheCon NA

2019-05-08 Thread Rich Bowen
On Wed, May 8, 2019, 14:48 Gris Cuevas wrote: > > > Anyway, re-stating my ask to you Patricia - Would you like to represent > D&I in the reviewers committee for the community track, and work with me to > identify gaps and proactively find content to address them? > > @Rich - I'm assuming you'd b

Re: Apache people, Native Americans

2019-05-11 Thread Rich Bowen
om time to time. But I have been completely unable to verify that this happened. If you (or anyone) has any actual "paper trail" of this happening, that would be remarkably helpful. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com http://

Re: Diversity in a diverse world

2019-05-11 Thread Rich Bowen
am experiencing around this thread, and the other 78 related threads, is making it increasingly likely that I'm going to say things I'll regret. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com http://rcbowen.com/ @rbowen - To unsu

Re: ApacheCon (Was: Re: Mailing list : public - private and external contributors)

2019-05-11 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, May 10, 2019, 20:35 Ruth Holloway wrote: > If it is the will of > the group, I'd be happy to submit the talk for ApacheCon NA this year, > for any speaking slot the organizers will grant me. > Please do. The cfp closes when I get to my desk Monday morning so please don't wait. :) https

Re: Apache people, Native Americans

2019-05-12 Thread Rich Bowen
Not that we are aware of. On Sun, May 12, 2019, 11:36 Matt Sicker wrote: > Is anyone from Apache Nation also a committer or member here? > > On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 03:45, Mark Thomas wrote: > > > On 11/05/2019 17:24, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > > > > &g

Re: Apache people, Native Americans

2019-05-13 Thread Rich Bowen
e seen that the people who are offended by it are, for the most part, not the people being referred to. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com http://rcbowen.com/ @rbowen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org

Re: Apache people, Native Americans

2019-05-13 Thread Rich Bowen
be, so “nation” sort of makes sense, though I’m not familiar with their specific terminology. On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 07:11, Rich Bowen wrote: On 5/13/19 12:11 AM, Kenneth Knowles wrote: "subscribe" This comes up for me pretty much every time I explain my work/life to someone who has no

Re: FAQ and education mailing list

2019-05-13 Thread Rich Bowen
s the one where we *do* stuff. :D -- Rich "Only half kidding" Bowen -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com http://rcbowen.com/ @rbowen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: diversity-h...@apache.org

Re: [FAQ] Proto-FAQ question 1

2019-05-14 Thread Rich Bowen
Answer N: the numbers show that our community is overwhelmingly male. This implies that we are somehow, perhaps unintentionally, excluding half of the planet. We would like to find out why and fix it. This doesn't mean that we can fix the whole industry but we can make our corner of it a little mor

Re: D&I 2020 budget Request

2019-05-23 Thread Rich Bowen
any territory without first discussing your idea with Rich Bowen and the Conferences committee. These are massive undertakings and require team planning and careful consideration, not just one person's heroic efforts. The ASF only has so much bandwidth to run these in any given year. Small events

Re: D&I 2020 budget Request

2019-05-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, May 23, 2019, 08:19 Awasum Yannick wrote: > Hi, > > 2.) D&I specific travel assistance (For people who really need it, who are > under represented). > 3.) Money to sponsor an Apache Con in Africa(even a road show) or some > other under represented location. Has there been an Apache Con in

Fwd: [INQUIRY]: Accessibility at ApacheCon?

2019-08-16 Thread Rich Bowen
Hi, folks. I received the below email and while it sounds interesting I do not have the cycles to pursue it. Anyone here have the motivation to follow up? Shosholoza, Rich -- Forwarded message - From: Rich Bowen Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 11:51 Subject: Fwd: [INQUIRY

Re: Fwd: [INQUIRY]: Accessibility at ApacheCon?

2019-08-20 Thread Rich Bowen
If nobody speaks up, I'll just ask them to check back next year, ok? On 8/16/19 8:03 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > Hi, folks. I received the below email and while it sounds interesting I > do not have the cycles to pursue it. Anyone here have the motivation to > follow up?  > >

Re: Fwd: [INQUIRY]: Accessibility at ApacheCon?

2019-08-22 Thread Rich Bowen
re on what it'll take. Not >> really wanting to take much more responsibility on-ground. Will report >> back with findings (like what additional volunteer time it would require). >> >> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 7:21 AM Kevin A. McGrail >> wrote: >> >>

Blacklist/whitelist

2020-06-06 Thread Rich Bowen
I just made a few commits which removed all occurrences of "blacklist" from the Apache httpd documentation. It took just a few minutes. I encourage each of you to take a few minutes to do the same for your project(s). Please note that I have zero interest in debating whether this is necessary or

Re: Blacklist/whitelist

2020-06-06 Thread Rich Bowen
ow too. > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 16:29 Rich Bowen wrote: > > > I just made a few commits which removed all occurrences of "blacklist" > from > > the Apache httpd documentation. It took just a few minutes. > > > > I encourage each of you to take

Re: Blacklist/whitelist

2020-06-09 Thread Rich Bowen
might reach more projects who just haven't thought about it yet. > > But given that several projects *are* working on this, maybe we can get a > "Success at Apache" blog post going about it? > > Best, > Myrle > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:29 PM Rich Bowen w

Re: Does ASF has any criteria for inclusive words?

2021-05-07 Thread Rich Bowen
a board discussion, but would rather point either to this list, or possibly to the Community Development list. This seems like the correct list, to me. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com @rbowen - To unsubscribe, e-mai

Re: Does ASF has any criteria for inclusive words?

2021-05-10 Thread Rich Bowen
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Re: Does ASF has any criteria for inclusive words?

2021-05-18 Thread Rich Bowen
so like to know if this e-mail would fit on the ASF board Mailing list, I thought first on bringing this to the diversity@apache. I appreciate any feedback. Best Regards, -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com @rbowen - To unsubscr

Re: Does ASF has any criteria for inclusive words?

2021-05-18 Thread Rich Bowen
discuss this topic, we always take meeting notes. I was not aware of the biweekly calls. Can you provide more detail, please? On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 17:31, Rich Bowen wrote: I noted in the Diversity board report the following comment with regard to this topic: "we don't have r

Re: Does ASF has any criteria for inclusive words?

2021-05-18 Thread Rich Bowen
anges. This is one of the main things that https://inclusivenaming.org/ is working on, and we should go participate in that, rather than doing that work independently here. That will avoid having YAS (Yet Another Standard), and it will also benefit both us, and them, by lending another voice to the eff

Re: Inclusive terminology in Apache Software - a practical approach

2021-05-21 Thread Rich Bowen
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Re: CLC checker does not provide any suggestions for improvements

2021-08-30 Thread Rich Bowen
the InclusingNaming.org, and, in particular, https://inclusivenaming.org/language/word-list/ We can certainly make this more evident. I'll attempt to make the 'about' page less terse. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbo

Re: CLC checker does not provide any suggestions for improvements

2021-08-30 Thread Rich Bowen
On 8/30/21 2:36 PM, sebb wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 13:25, Rich Bowen wrote: On 8/30/21 6:07 AM, sebb wrote: The CLC checker flags lots of words, but does not give any help to projects in how to replace them. Whilst different contexts may require different solutions, it would help

Re: CLC checker does not provide any suggestions for improvements

2021-08-30 Thread Rich Bowen
On 8/30/21 2:53 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: P.S. The diversity site is not totally clean. I don't know what this means. Can you please elaborate? Aha. You're referring to https://clc.diversity.apache.org/analysis.html?project=diversity-site.git Yes, that's true. -- R

Re: CLC problematic word replacements

2021-08-30 Thread Rich Bowen
cases, there's no universal answer that will work for every project. On the other hand, if the answer is "step back a bit, think about what you were trying to communicate, and don't use lame or retarded in the sentence", then it's a different mindse

Re: CLC problematic word replacements

2021-08-30 Thread Rich Bowen
me thought, and have no idea how to replace "dummy value". This is a common computing phrase, so would benefit from some advice. Replacements that come to mind are: Temporary value. Placeholder. Example value. -- Rich Bowe

Re: CLC problematic word replacements

2021-08-30 Thread Rich Bowen
t this is a non-trivial problem. Sebb. [1] https://inclusivenaming.org/language/word-list/ Only has suggestions for master, slave, whitelist, blacklist at present. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: diversity-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands,

Re: Why are there two public diversity lists?

2021-08-31 Thread Rich Bowen
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