I should note that we have two past surveys from Bitergia. See https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDI/The+State+of+Diversity+and+Inclusion+in+the+ASF+Community%3A+A+Pulse+Check
> On Aug 11, 2025, at 07:54, 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
