I haven't had much bandwidth to engage here, but I very much like using the IDEA acronym, to explicitly include Accessibility, and I also like your idea of developing some verbiage around the pillars.
Kenn On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, D&I committee members and other lurkers, > > With our annual conference coming into view on the horizon soon, as well > as various questions, trends, and issues moving into view across the > organization, I would like to kick off an idea for the fall and winter, > aptly named...IDEA. > > IDEA is short for: > > - Inclusion > - Diversity > - Equity > - Access > > Within each of these four letters and terms lies a segment that I think > is vital to ensuring the continued growth, harmony, and general > well-being of our foundation and its many communities. I also happen to > think the abbreviation is a catchy mnemonic for us to work with. > > The basic premise IDEA, as I envision it, is to tackle each of these > letters sequentially, building a formulaic understanding of why this > effort exists, what the scope is and isn't, and begin launching > community-led initiatives to help projects and the wider foundation > community as a whole. > > It is my hope that having a formulated but still heuristic approach will > supply us with both some guard-rails to help us keep the course, while > still being loosely enough defined to allow us to go where inspiration > and feedback takes us. > > Thus, I would like us to focus on inclusion first, initially defining > what we understand as inclusion within the context of the ASF and its > many communities, what we believe is within the scope of inclusion at > the ASF, as well as what we think is outside this scope. > > As I have mentioned earlier, I want the initiatives that happen as a > result of our work to be community-driven. While we may have our own > personal and professional opinions on what inclusion means to us, the > very nature of the word compels us to ask the communities and work with > them in identifying which issues or trends may or may not exist within > the individual or global communities within the ASF, as well as working > with projects to solve issues or promote best practices in a manner that > respects the wishes and intents of both projects and the foundation as a > whole. > > To that end, I think it logical that we will need some infrastructure > set up for handling the investigative/analytical parts of our future > work, such as tools for conducting surveys, outreach, and data analysis. > > Seeing as we already have a VM set up from previous experiments within > D&I, I will propose we retrofit that to host these tools. > > I have done some preliminary research into open source survey tools that > we could self-host, and found Formbricks[1] to be a good starting point, > as we can self-host their open source version with minimal setup. > > If anyone on the committee (or in the wider audience) have experience > with this tool or similar options, I'd love to hear from you, whether > it's feedback/reviews of the solutions out there or experience with > managing them. > > *This* email is mostly an introduction to the IDEA concept, as well as > these musings on bootstrapping the tooling we will need. I will start a > separate thread on inclusion once I have gathered my thoughts on the > matter some more, but do not let that stop you from replying with your > own ideas and thoughts on the matter. The more ideas we can accumulate > in advance, the better our chances of getting productive with something. > > Looking forward to hearing from you all, > - Daniel > > [1] https://formbricks.com/docs/self-hosting/overview >
