Hey Gris, Actually it's probably easiest if I just show you what I mean. There's no need to hold up any other tasks for this. Let me try to find a good visual representation for putting my ideas "on paper" and I'll send it around for feedback.
Best, Myrle On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 6:59 PM Griselda Cuevas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
