On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 7:28 PM Melissa Mendonça <meliss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are happy to announce the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has awarded a > grant to support the onboarding, inclusion, and retention of people from > historically marginalized groups on scientific Python projects, and to > structurally improve the community dynamics for NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, > and Pandas. > > As a part of CZI’s Essential Open Source Software for Science program [1], > this Diversity & Inclusion supplemental grant [2] will support the creation > of dedicated Contributor Experience Lead positions to identify, document, > and implement practices to foster inclusive open-source communities. This > project will be led by Melissa Mendonça (NumPy), with additional mentorship > and guidance provided by Ralf Gommers (NumPy, SciPy), Hannah Aizenman and > Thomas Caswell (Matplotlib), Matt Haberland (SciPy), and Joris Van den > Bossche (Pandas). > > This is an ambitious project aiming to discover and implement activities > that should structurally improve the community dynamics of our projects. By > establishing these new cross-project roles, we hope to introduce a new > collaboration model to the Scientific Python communities, allowing > community-building work within the ecosystem to be done more efficiently > and with greater outcomes. We also expect to develop a clearer picture of > what works and what doesn’t in our projects to engage and retain new > contributors, especially from historically underrepresented groups. > Finally, we plan on producing detailed reports on the actions executed, > explaining how they have impacted our projects in terms of representation > and interaction with our communities. > > The two-year project is expected to start by November 2021, and we are > excited to see the results from this work! You can read the full proposal > in figshare [3] and see this announcement at the NumPy site [4]. > Thanks for sharing the great news and for leading this project Melissa! I'm really looking forward to seeing this get off the ground and make a different to NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib and SciPy. Cheers, Ralf Cheers! > > - Melissa > > [1] https://chanzuckerberg.com/eoss/ > [2] > https://cziscience.medium.com/advancing-diversity-and-inclusion-in-scientific-open-source-eaabe6a5488b > [3] > https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Advancing_an_inclusive_culture_in_the_scientific_Python_ecosystem/16548063 > [4] > https://numpy.org/news/#advancing-an-inclusive-culture-in-the-scientific-python-ecosystem > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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