I would also hope for some virality such that each intern brings some number of others.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 8:06 AM Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > You already know this, but I ran some example numbers, and I figured you'd > appreciate them. > > We're too big to use Outreachy to significantly impact our diversity > numbers. Just to take one dimension of one segment of our committer > pipeline, and some simplified numbers as an example: if we have 8000 > committers across all of our projects, and 5% are women, we'd need to add > 444 women committers to raise the percentage of women committers to 10%. > (8000*(.1 -.05)/(1 - .1)) > > If all of the Outreachy interns were women, and 90% of the Outreachy > interns were to become project committers, we'd need to employ 494 > Outreachy interns. > > Outreachy interns cost the org 6.5 thousand dollars, work for 6 weeks, and > require roughly 5 hours of mentoring per week. *So raising participation > of women to 10% would cost more than 3.2 million dollars, and nearly 15 > thousand mentor hours, if done solely via Outreachy.* > > Of course several of my assumptions are downright silly. So, it would > likely cost much more. But even that amount is currently well beyond our > reach. And the participation of minorities in our projects is probably > worse than the participation of women, so continuing this calculation along > those dimensions is just going to get depressing. > > Direct impact on our diversity statistics can't be our goal in > participating in Outreachy. > > Instead, one of the hopes that have been expressed with respect to hosting > an Outreachy intern is that we'll be able to follow their progress and > learn from the problems they encounter (following the "Switch" model (1)), > so that we can figure out what's keeping people out of our communities and > tackle those underlying problems. > > Naomi's recent e-mail on this is super exciting. I am really looking > forward to watching the work she's describing. > > Best Regards, > Myrle > > 1.) > https://www.amazon.com/Switch-change-things-when-hard-ebook/dp/B005TKD512/ >
