Other Useful Diversity Resources

The ASF has run several committer diversity surveys between 2016-2023: read about them all here:

Community survey and contributor experience research

General Diversity Strategy

Encouraging Women to Participate in Apache Projects

Mailing List Ideas

1. Emphasize ASF Code of Conduct on project websites
2. Contact IT Womens Groups
3. Setup / Define Benchmark measurement
4. Tailor ASF website to handle women landing on various pages / guiding them through specific route & information
5. Start a series of blog positive experience blog posts
6. Start a series of Apachecon presentations themed on encouraging diversity

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What is the overall goal?

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General mission type statements eg

/ Possible Mission Statement

"To make the ASF a culturally diverse and socially representative open source community"

What outcomes do we want?

1. To increase diversity by attracting and welcoming all contributors including those from under-represented groups to the

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1. ASF
2. To retain diversity by maintaining a healthy, positive and socially dynamic environment where all groups feel safe, welcome and appreciated
3. To actively monitor diversity within the ASF and if necessary apply strategies to encourage and attract under-represented groups

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What does diversity mean?

Diversity in gender? Ethnicity? Age? What else?

Main two are gender and ethnicity.

What are the objectives?

• Attract under-represented groups to the ASF
• Retain under-represented groups within the ASF (no use attracting new people if the the ones already here leave)
• Maintain diversity as a reflection of "population diversity" or what else? (part of this is defining a level or target of diversity the ASF want to reach, plus being able to monitor it to confirm it)
• Monitor the level of diversity (could be related to publishing details of diversity...)

Possible Plan

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How can we achieve these outcomes?

Reach out and attract new contributors

1. Go to where our potential new contributors are
   1. Outreachy
   2. Hackbright Academy
   3. Google Summer of Code
   4. Women in Big Data
   5. Others ??
2. Use Events and Meetups to attract new contributors
   1. Apachecon
   2. Apache Big Data
   3. FOSDEM
   4. Project Meetups
   5. Grace Hopper ?
   6. Project Meetups?
   7. Other Events Apache represented at?
3. Promote and talk about Apache and its culture through Social Media, Blogging,
   1. ASF Weekly News
   2. ASF Twitter
   3. ASF & Project Blogs
   4. Articles for external magazines eg Open Source Way, Others
   5. Other people blogging / talking about the ASF or any of its projects and their experience of it
   6. Wikipedia ? - people use it a lot - what does the ASF or projects entries look like?
4. Marketing material (leaflets, stickers, swag..)
   1. ASF information leaflets
   2. ASF & Project Stickers
   3. Small branded marketing gifts / giveaways (pen, keyring etc)

Ensure that people that join Apache communities enjoy what they do and feel safe and appreciated

1. Make existing contributors and all new contributors feel safe (IMPORTANT!)
   
   1. Have a Code of Conduct
   2. Ensure the code of conduct is enforced
2. Ensure the contributors know they are contributing to a legal organisation with defined standards and governance
   1. Apache Licence
   2. Promote ASF Standards and Governance Model
3. Make communities welcoming and inclusive
   1. Respond to questions from newcomers as well as existing members
   2. Acknowledge contributions (IMPORTANT!)
   3. Remove the distinction between code and non code related contributions (they are equal)
   4. Make it easier for newcomers to contribute
   5. Use polite and neutral language
   6. Celebrate achievements
4. Promote collaboration
   
   1. Collaborative discussion and decision making (Mailing list)
   2. Collaborative development (Wiki, Jira, Chat,?)
   3. Build relationships (Chat, Meetups - virtual or real)
   4. Other tools

Maintain a positive culture of inclusiveness and openness

Have clear and understandable policies and guidelines

Monitor Diversity ?

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1. Could maybe be handles by anonymous surveys of individual projects
2. Project level because containable and easier communication group. Easier to communicate on a mailing list to a specific project than trying to communicate to all projects and all contributors at the same time.
3. Lessons learned from initial projects can help revise and refine methodology for others

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1. Existing communities may also have ideas and contacts
2. Promotion of plan and prepare existing communities for diversity surveys - so it will be expected
3. Internal blog / communications about diversity plan updates (what is happening, where and when)

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