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  • marayve@
  • aarora@
  • Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe (our keynoter! yay!)
  • curcuru@
  • glauesppen@
  • striker@
  • rbowen@
  • nick@

How do we continue these BOF

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conversations in the future? 

Slack or mailing list - opinions on both sides.

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How do we help other ASF projects improve inclusion?

  • Idea: how can the ASF as a whole better showcase the projects that do actually actively reach out for new people, that have good-first-issue tags, etc. - projects that are truly welcoming and want to find newcomers

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  • ?
    • How can we create a simple "these ASF projects are welcoming, try them!" page? 
  • Add a page in the https://community.apache.org/ with some good practices on how to create better documentation or project websites that support accessibility.
  • How can we - in an organized fashion - do a better job of sharing the good examples of inclusion with other projects that might not quite do as good a job? 
  • How do we make it easy for a PMC to understand the importance

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  • and then take a few simple but concrete steps to make incremental improvements?
    • Get success cases with CHAOSS and other communities?
  • There are many existing presentations/guides/how-tos about DEI out there.  We need volunteers to pick a few good ones, then write an introduction about that presentation that's directly speaking to ASF communities - i.e. a translation of concepts into PMCs/committers/Apache Way concepts. 
    • If we can publish or point to existing guides elsewhere, but provide the context that explains that in ASF terms, it makes it much easier for some of our PMCs to see why it's important and how they can easily implement some steps. 
    • It also really helps to have resources hosted on an apache.org domain; so we should work on building out the diversity.apache.org website to have more guided links to external resources

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    • while helping ASF communities understand where to start.