Hi Chris El 26/03/17 a las 17:48, Chris Lamb escribió: > martin f krafft wrote: > >> What does "outreach" mean to you? > > I fear I have a pretty mainstream interpretation of outreach; ie. > specifically "targeting" (or at least calling the attention of) groups > we perceive to be under-represented in our community and streamlining > their initial involvement in our project. > > However, in Debian I believe this extends beyond gender etc. but also > with respect to geographic location, race, socio-economic background > and political outlook. It might be fair to say we remain somewhat of > a European project in both senses of that word.
Sorry I didn't understand the "both senses" of European. I can imagine geographically and... culturally? Could you clarify? Thanks > > Including folks that our outside of our norms are a huge potential for > Debian, not only in crude terms such as the untapped humanpower and the > technical ideas that were potentially outside of our point of view, it > simply makes the project more social, fun and enjoyable. Not only that, > how many times have you heard of Debian being (ab?)used in a some > unexpected context and thought "Huh, I feel pretty proud to have had a > small hand in that…". > > I think we're doing a pretty good job already and this is helped by > being a rather anarchistic project to begin with — we appear to attract > a wider mix of people who like our approach to building things versus the > more "top-down" distributions. > > We do, however, lack clear "next steps" in this area which cause me some > concern. As an illustration of this, I remember attending a Debian BoF > where there was universal agreement that diversity was a good thing but > when prompted with a question of "OK, so what shall we do?" there was > little advice beyond being welcoming, etc. being exchanged. > > Without addressing this, we could end up simply paying lip service to the > concept to the detriment of all. > > > Regards, > -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
