Hi, Sharan! Great initiative, diversity is a very important topic for ASF and software development in general!
Here's another great community: http://www.womeninhpc.org/ They bring together many highly skilled HPC devops and researchers who I am sure could bring valuable contributions to many HPC- and cloud-related Apache projects. Example of text from their training events, which I think could be a good slot to sneak in some "Contribute to Open source (perhaps ASF?)" slides: > This event is open to everyone interested in using HPC, but all our training > staff will be women and we hope that this provides an opportunity for women > to network and build collaborations as well as learning new skills for a > challenging and rewarding career in HPC. On 23 May 2016 at 11:45, Sharan Foga <sharan.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > > Just a quick update. I've sent out an email to the following groups so far: > > - Pyladies > - Phpladies > - Women Who Code > - Girls Who Code > - Black Girls Code > > I'll post any feedback I get. Also if anyone thinks of any other groups > they'd like me to contact then please let me know. > > Thanks > Sharan > > > On 20/05/16 14:26, Sharan Foga wrote: >> >> Thanks very much to everyone for their feedback and support. >> >> Rich - I will contact these groups to see what feedback and advice they >> can give. >> >> Thanks >> Sharan >> >> On 20/05/16 14:05, Rich Bowen wrote: >>> >>> I would suggest that the most constructive thing we could do would be to >>> reach out to pyladies and phpwomen and other similar organizations and >>> ask >>> for recommendations and assistance in setting up a similar entity here. >>> On May 19, 2016 11:18, "Sharan Foga" <sharan.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All >>>> >>>> I'm interested in finding out how we could encourage more women to >>>> participate on Apache projects. It's a discussion topic that came up >>>> last >>>> week while I was at Apachecon. My understanding is that we don't have >>>> any >>>> current strategies in place so I think it could be good to look at >>>> gathering some ideas about how to tackle the problem and also hear about >>>> any lessons learned from any previous or similar strategies. >>>> >>>> What do people think? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Sharan >>>> >>>> >>>> >> > -- Stian Soiland-Reyes Apache Taverna (incubating), Apache Commons http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
