(NOTE: mixed private/public lists) Board resolutions to create new committees (like D&I [1]) have only a high-level description of the goals of the proposed committee. It's important for Directors to understand what they're voting on, so it's helpful to have a focused thread where we can reflect back what the Directors understand of what's being proposed.
Personally, I see the D&I President's committee proposal very similarly to what the people volunteering to do the work have been actively working on here on diversity@, so I'd like to include them here. I would like to see (and have volunteered to help): - A plan and framework [2] for the work D&I volunteers want to accomplish. (Hopefully we can get more productive participants in fleshing out that draft). - Re-running the previous Committer survey [3] to get an updated baseline on our existing demographics. The last one in 2016 showed we were not representative compared to the larger software industry. - Provide FAQs [4], a terminology guide, and a framework for how we can discuss complex issues thoughtfully and with shared terms in a context that makes sense for Apache style communities. There are many useful scholarly papers and corporate guides on "How to run a D&I program". But the majority of them explicitly focus on a traditional corporate hierarchy, which fits neither our organization nor the ways our volunteer communities communicate. I hope D&I volunteers can come up with an equally good playbook that is both structured to our organization and explained in terms that fit with our communities. - Provide materials and guides from all the above that any of our projects can choose to use if they want to run their own D&I initiatives. That would be both a website as well as slide decks and other re-useable bits that projects can pick and choose from when needed. - (I hope!) Get a volunteer track chair and CFP submissions for a future ApacheCon to make a welcoming and inclusivity track alongside the always-popular Community tracks. In terms of organization, I firmly believe in what many ComDev PMC members explicitly voted to recommend to the board, which is a D&I President's committee. I look forward to voting on that resolution this coming week at our monthly board meeting. -- - Shane Director & Member The Apache Software Foundation [1] "Re: [VOTE] ComDev supports formation of D&I committee" https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/86e18cde3544de1907172c7f87fa41f98285b30d564cb5d4ea95763c@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E [2] "D&I Strategy Design Document, please collaborate" https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/aa229e6ba144b94fa7c7e1746e3a3b97d3e7e3996fb978f24e2a602b@%3Cdiversity.apache.org%3E [3] "Revamping the ASF Committer Diversity Survey" https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8d84934791e56258948ff0dd59142fcab13c27b567220f51e6c8032f@%3Cdiversity.apache.org%3E [4] "FAQ and education mailing list" https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ccc30f6a7aaa424deeefe2de06580f96296948cae573cfb130e2193c@%3Cdiversity.apache.org%3E --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
