Hi Myrle, I'm not quite sure what mapping the pipeline means. In my opinion the subject of diversity is too broad and can have as many dimensions as we can possibly think.
This is an important reason why I wanted to define values, a mission statement and goals for our committee. They would give us a framework to work with and decide what we work on and when. I'd say that personally I wouldn't like to complicate how we measure diversity in the community, the more dimensions we introduce the messier things can be. In my opinion, motivations for folks can vary, and they can be studied as part of the experience research. However the experiences people have in the communities aren't affected by this motivations necessarily. e.g. I'm a paid employee who is tasked to contribute to open source, my motivations change how long I'm willing to stand abrasions but doesn't change the fact that me or another non-native EN speaker will have the same trouble keeping up with lengthy threads. Right now I am not saying yes or no to this suggestion, I don't think I fully get it and the first impression it gives me is an extra complication to how we measure our current status. G On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 08:45, Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > Niclas has made several points (open source as employment vs. volunteers, > the incubator) which relate to understanding our pipeline. > > Our volunteer pipeline is little more complex than > contributor->committer->PMC > > And it's likely that parts of that pipeline are in better shape than > others. > > To take one of many potential concrete examples: it's very likely true that > there are different obstacles to participation in open source for women as > part of their paid work for big tech companies (bias towards front-end work > perhaps), than there are for women who are doing open source as an > after-work hobby ("second shift" perhaps). > > I'd like to see us map out our pipeline as a first step, before we start > hypothesizing what the problems might be, what questions we might want to > ask to narrow down our problems more precisely, and which areas we want to > focus on. > > Waddaya think? > > Best, > Myrle >
