Current Report (
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September)
## 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) ***
- Outreachy May-August 2022 internship round finalised on August 26, 2022. We had 2 Outreachy interns during this round.[1]
- A big thank you to María Arias de Reyna Domínguez and Antonin Stefanutti for mentoring the Outreachy interns. [2][3]
- Two projects: Improve Camel K API and Examples and Improve Camel K operator scalability.
- Outreachy December 2022 - March 2023. We applied as a community and got accepted!
- Already received and approved one project submission, project title: "SOLR-11872 Refactor test infra to work with a managed SolrClient; ditch TestHarness" [4]
- We are calling for funds for the new round! If you know of anyone that would like to support us with the Outreachy program please contact us on dev@diversity.apache.org
- We are calling for mentors and projects. We depend on the funds to be able to cover more projects.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- Survey launch on August. Thank you everyone that participated in the survey. Thank you Christian, Melissa, Chris, Diogenes, Joe, Daniel, and all of you that contributed to the survey launch.
- Bitergia and Kenn (Apache Beam) had a series of calls to review and provide feedback over the dashboard improvement proposal. Thank you, Kenn!
*** Operations
- no news.
## Committee members' changes:
- no news.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/alums/2022-05/
July
## 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.
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- Survey content ported in limes survey tool.
- Content of communications have being reviewed by Melissa and Katie. We are waiting on final feedback from VP. of marketing and publicity.
- VP. of privacy provided feedback and confirmed the project complies. We won't send reminders of the survey.
- Waiting on feedback, from Apache Beam, of the dashboard draft.
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