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• The objective of this question was to find out how long the committer had been a committer, and to see if it was inline with the previous question about how long people had been involved with the ASF.
• One person preferred not to respond to this question.
• The largest group of respondents (384) had been a committer for less than 3 years
• This is clearly significantly different to the responses for question 1. Instead of being fairly balanced across the time frame, there is a large group of newer committers. This seems to indicate that some of the committers have been involved with a project for more than 3 years before being invited as a committer. (

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Question 3: In general, do you contribute to Apache as an individual or as an employee of a company?i

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• The objective of this question was to get a picture of the gender breakdown / diversity of the Apache committers
• Ten people preferred not to answer this question
• The two not listed responses did not specify a gender and instead commented on the question
• The largest group of respondents (703) were male
• Forty females, four trans females, and six gender variant / non conforming / non-binary responded.
  
  • Only 5.2% of respondents were female which is low
  • It is good to see that the people of non conforming gender are involved in ASF projects and also that they are willing to indicate this for the survey

Proposed actions

Engage with women within the ASF and find out any ideas for encouraging others

Review existing outreach programs to

Look at additional / specific outreach (e.g. Outreachy, Hackbright, WiBD etc) to see if we can collaborate with them 

Question 5: What is your age range?

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