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## Activity:

*** Operations

• Preparing budget for 2021 FY
• Finalizing project wrap up with Bitergia

*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***

• Final report is underway
• Wrote and submitted an academic paper for CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing)[1]. CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Bringing together top researchers and practitioners, CSCW explores the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technology to support collaborative work and life activities. The conference accepts novel, innovative and original work and typically has a 20-25% acceptance rate – which means it’s a very competitive conference.  The conference had 900 participants in 2020. 
• We have submitted our work for CSCW 2021 and we will know about how our paper did in April 2021, when we receive the review comments. We hopefully get an Accept or a Major Revision. This will make the research validated by a cross functional team of academics, helping us complete our first short term goal of providing scientific validates data on the state of D&I in the foundation. 

  
  

*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***

•  6 interns on 6 different projects. All projects proceeding as normal. 
• You can check the working group notes here [ 2]

## Committee members changes:

None. 

## References

[1] https://cscw.acm.org/2020/

[ 2]2020-11-25 Outreachy Meeting notes

December 2020

## Description:

- The Diversity and Inclusion VP works in collaboration with a team who contributes towards generating a current description of the D&I landscape in the industry and for the foundation. The team also focuses on developing resources the projects can leverage to increase diversity and inclusion in their communities.

## Issues:

• None

## Activity:

*** Operations

• LAst invoice of research project is expected in early January. We're on track for the allocated budget. 

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