Welcome Daniel! Thank you for stepping up to fill the role of VP, Diversity and Inclusion.
I appreciate your approach to listen to the community and focusing on incremental change with projects that want to engage. There is a lot that the committee worked on before. I hope that the wisdom of the past somehow remain available, like the results from the community surveys. Of course, like software needs refactoring, committees need to refocus on what works and has impact. Georg Link, PhD (he/him) TZ: US Central Time: US/Chicago On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > On 3/19/25 11:28, Ruth Suehle wrote: > > Those of you who have read my board report for today's meeting will have > > seen that after a lengthy time of low activity, I'm pleased to appoint > > Daniel Gruno to the role of VP, Diversity and Inclusion. He has been > > working with Christian Grobmeier (and more recently, Melissa Logan has > > joined) on plans to revive the work. I look forward to seeing their work > > and encourage anyone who is interested to pitch in! > > > > Ruth > > > Thank you for that introduction (and trust), Ruth, I appreciate it. > > It's very early days still, but I have written up a short plan or primer > for how I want to see the EDI committee working, as well as what I'd > love for us to try out. You can find it here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDI/2025+EDI+jumpstart+plan > > On April 1st, I intend to do some spring cleaning of the committee > structure, essentially doing a clean slate. I truly appreciate the work > that a ton of people have done in (and outside) this committee already, > and will welcome anyone who wants to stay on the committee. > > I'd also like to invite any other members or committers of the > foundation to volunteer for the committee, either by replying on this > list (which is a public mailing list, FYI) or by sending me a private > reply with your ASF username. > > This isn't paid work and you may get yelled at, but if you still want to > give it a go, maybe we can keep nudging the foundation in a more > equitable, accessible direction[1], and in turn benefit our users. > > Have a look at the jump-start plan and let me know what your thoughts are. > > With regards, > Daniel. > > [1] Don't take this as a jab at our current status. We are awesome, > and we can improve because we want to be...even more awesome. >
