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March)

15 Mar 2022 

## Description:

- The Diversity and Inclusion VP works in collaboration with a team that 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:

## Activity:

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

• We entered week 11 of the round "December 2021 to March 2022" [1]. We will finalize the current round in 3 weeks. 

• New round: "May to August 2022" is opened [2]. We worked with marketing and publicity, sponsor relations, and fundraising on the message to call for mentors and for sponsors. After the final approval, Sally will share the messages via the corresponding MLs. Thank you so much, Bob Paulin, Joe Brockmeier, Sally Khudairi for your active contribution in designing these communications. 
• we should receive at least one sponsorship before February 25, 2022, at 4pm UTC, to be able to participate in the program. If you are interested in the program, check out your inbox, you should receive an email soon. You can start with this page [3].

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

• We had extensive discussions about the Bitergia-contract with marketing and publicity, legal, and fundraising. 
• I sent the final version of the contract, including the recommended changes, to the rest of the team for their approval. Once it is approved it will be signed and sent to Bitergia. 
• Content of the project: The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) will program manage and analyze the status of Diversity & Inclusion within the Foundation and its community of users, members, and committers. The two main tasks are to (i) re-run the contributor survey with minor changes, and (ii) implement an improvement and learn from it using scientific methods.
• The project plan has been started.

*** Project: EDI Website 

• No updates - no volunteers [4]

*** Operations

• no updates.

## Committee members changes:

• No new members.

## References

[1] https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-december-2021-internship-round/

[2] https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2022-01-10/may-2022-call-for-mentoring-communities/

[3] https://www.outreachy.org/sponsor/

[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-11

February 

14 Feb 2022 

## Description:

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