Current Report (April)
## 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:
- I am bringing this topic again as I was contacted by a ASF member that wanted to participate in the Outreachy program during the May-August 2023 round. As communicated in my report of February 2023, we are not going to participate in the program because we did not have sponsorships approved on time, this is the main reason, we didn't submit our application to participate due to lack of sponsorship. The due date passed and we had no longer opportunity to participate during said round, we can always participate during the December-March round, paperwork and sponsorships must be approved during August/September. Outreachy supported our decision of not participating in this round because the "Appropriation of indigenous culture" topic may take a lot of time and resources, so it was better for both sides to keep focus to what is important and allocate resources were needed. To give you more context, I was contacted by Outreachy representatives on February to discuss the topic of what is the ASF doing to solve the concerns related to the "Appropriation of indigenous culture" [1] [2]. I communicated at that time that we were working on a solution, a committee was created to address these concerns, and Outreachy representatives agreed on the decision of not participating during the current round to focus on this topic, and proactively offered to help in anything they could. The point that we should take from this is that Outreachy is also aware and concerned about the "Appropriation of indigenous culture" topic, they take the code of conduct very seriously, they would like to see progress on the issue, and offered to help us.
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
- The ASF won't participate in the May-August 2023 round.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- Bitergia has delivered 2 reports and 1 blog post. They are currently being reviewed by Marketing and Communications.
Survey report
Dashboard report
Blog post
*** Operations
- no news.
## Committee members' changes:
- no news.
## References
[1] https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/
[2] https://www.endasfmascotry.com/
## 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:
- I was contacted by Outreachy representatives, Sage Sharp, to discuss the topic of what is the ASF doing to solve the concerns related to the "Appropriation of indigenous culture" [3] [4]. I communicated that we are working on a solution. A committed has been created to address these concerns and we are currently in the gathering-information phase. we would like to understand the problem to identify the provide an appropriate solution. This is not going to be solved in one week, this is something that will take a significant amount of time and efforts. I also communicated that we won't participate during this round to focus in the current issue. They seemed to be satisfied with the answer.
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
- We are at the end of the the Outreachy round December 2022 - March 2023 [1] [2].
- The ASF won't participate in the May-August 2023 round.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- Bitergia is finalising the reports of the user experience research project. Waiting on their delivery to review and publish is approved.
*** Operations
- no news.
## Committee members' changes:
- no news.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/alums/2022-12/
[3] https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/
[4] https://www.endasfmascotry.com/
## 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:
- Multiple discussion have been opened to address the this question: ASF appropriating Indigenous culture? [3] [4]
- This is a recurrent topic that comes from time to time and we will have the opportunity to discuss during the next board meeting. Some points I would like to bring for discussion:
1. Brand management: did we committed a cultural appropriation when we decided to use the name and brand "Apache"?
2. Marketing and publicity: are we respectful in our communication while using the name "Apache"?
3. Diversity and inclusion: which measures are we putting in place to avoid cultural appropriation (researched the culture, define and avoid stereotypes, promote the diversity and inclusion of that community, engage and share benefits, etc.)?
4. Legal: this is a brand, did we follow the corresponding procedures?
5. Public relations: our image and reputation?
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
- Outreachy December 2022 - March 2023 in progress. You can find the details of our Outreachy inter here [1].
- Project: "SOLR-11872 Refactor test infra to work with a managed SolrClient; ditch TestHarness" [2]
- May-August 2023 round is open. Outreachy is calling for open source communities and mentors. Feb. 6, 2023 at 4pm UTC is the deadline for submitting an initial application. Applicants will be notified of their initial application status on March 6, 2023.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- Bitergia submitted draft of the user experience research report based on the data collected with the D&I survey. It is currently under internal review before sharing it with the community to confirm the approach is correct and avoid misunderstandings.
- Bitergia and Kenn (Apache Beam) continue working on the dashboard.
*** Operations
- no news.
## Committee members' changes:
- no news.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/alums/2022-12/
[3] https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/
[4] https://www.endasfmascotry.com/
## 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.
## Issues:
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
- Two projects: Improve Camel K API and Examples and Improve Camel K operator scalability.
- Progressing as expected, we are on the week 8 of the round "May to August 2022".
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- 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.
*** Operations
- no news.
## Committee members' changes:
- no news.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/alums/2022-05/
June
## 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) ***
- Two projects: Improve Camel K API and Examples and Improve Camel K operator scalability.
- The round "May to August 2022" is progressing as expected, entering 3rd week of the internship.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- Survey content is ready and is being ported to survey lime tool.
- The blog posts and emails are ready for sharing, I am contacting Sally to help us with the communications.
- First dashboard shared with Apache beam for their feedback. Waiting on response.
*** Operations
- no news.
## Committee members' changes:
- no news.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/alums/2022-05/
May
## 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 got 2 interns approved, one inter per project. The announcement of the selected interns will be done on May 20th. [1]
- The projects are: Improve Camel K API and Examples and Improve Camel K operator scalability.
- The "May to August 2022" round will start with on May 30th.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- The community has provided feedback on the content of the survey [2]. We have closed the feedback period and included/addressed all the recommendations done.
- The VP. of privacy, Christian Grobmeier, has assessed the survey tool from data privacy perspective and gave the GTG (good to go) to the tool. We are currently reviewing the GDPR checks completion and will start porting the survey content to the tool during the next days.
- Bitergia is going to provided a new mockup of the dashboard that will be used as improvement method, we will review it in the next round.
*** Operations
- Addressed emails related to our name "Apache".
- Received new follow up emails about concerns caused by a potential misconduct or misbehaviour of an Apache member/contributor involving the topic of Russia and Ukraine. I will review them in the next days.
## Committee members' changes:
- no news.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s0TVBFf-KvOTl3IejI2FFOOTdkugZlX_ptnN6YWMFN0/edit?usp=sharing
April
## 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 got sponsorship support and currently we are participating in the round "May to August 2022" with 2 projects listed [1].
- Projects: Improve Camel K API and Examples and Improve Camel K operator scalability.
- We have received multiple contributions for both projects. The deadline for contribution submission is April 22, 2022 at 4pm UTC.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- The content of the survey has been shared with the community [2]. We have opened a feedback period, EOD of April 27th.
- We are working with the VP. of privacy, Christian Grobmeier, on the survey tool.
- Bitergia has provided a mockup of the dashboard that will be used as improvement method, we rare reviewing it and it will be shared shortly with Apache Beam.
*** Operations
- I received multiple emails related to our name "Apache". I reached out for guidance.
- Received some emails about concerns caused by a potential misconduct or misbehaviour of an Apache member/contributor involving the topic of Russia and Ukraine. I will review them in the next days to verify the content and context.
## Committee members' changes:
- no news.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/
[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s0TVBFf-KvOTl3IejI2FFOOTdkugZlX_ptnN6YWMFN0/edit?usp=sharing
March
## 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) ***
On March 4th, we concluded the round "December 2021 to March 2022" [1]. We finalized the round with 5 projects and 5 interns, one intern per project.
- We applied to participate in the round "May to August 2022" [2]. However, we didn't find sponsorships to move forward with the program. March 23rd at 4pm UTC is the deadline for Apache mentors to submit their Outreachy projects. We need budget for at least one project to join the program otherwise we would not be able to join during this round [3].
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- Kick-off meeting with Bitergia.
- We started working on the preliminary review of the survey. This stable version will be open to discussion with the D&I working group for the final version.
- We started a discussion with Apache Beam for their feedback and contribution on the improvement-implementation action.
*** Operations
- no updates.
## Committee members' changes:
- We have a new contributor working on the User Experience Research on new contributors project.
## 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/
February
## 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
January
## 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:
- Unclear process for contract review and approval for D&I projects: after signing the "Google Project Sponsorship Agreement" with Google, for the project User Experience Research on new contributors, we had to make a second review with Fundraising and Marketing which should've been done at an earlier stage. The issue was addressed and we initiated extensive discussions during November and December with Google to include Fundraising and Marketing considerations. Thank you so much to Bob Paulin, Joe Brockmeier, Aizhamal Nurmamat Kyzy, Edd Wilder-James, and everyone that contributed to the review of the contract, the amendment, and the successful submission of the amendment. We received on January 18th, confirmation of the successful completion of the contract.
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
We entered week 7 of the round "December 2021 to March 2022". We have 5 ongoing projects with 5 different interns, one per project. Progressing as expected. [1]
- Round "May to August 2022" is opened [2]. Community applications should be submitted before February 25, 2022, at 4pm UTC. We have one month to look for new funds for this round. Anyone interested in the project please reach out. You will find a generic presentation about Outreachy here [3].
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- Google Project Sponsorship Agreement was signed with Google on October 27th, 2021. The contract was amended on January 18th, 2022.
- Google has provided funding of 145K USD for our research project.
- 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.
- To execute the project, we will work with Bitergia. I shared the contract with Fundraising, treasurer, Joe, Sally, and Bob on December 13th, 2021, for their review and feedback. I am sending a reminder on January 18th with additional information.
- I will work with Matt Sicker on the documentation repository for the project, we have scheduled a meeting on January 19.
*** 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://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDI/Outreachy+program+sponsorship
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-11
December was not submitted - updates included in the January report.
November (same as October submitted by mistake) - updates included in the January report.
## 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:
- None
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
- We continue on the round "December 2021 to March 2022". We finalized the project list period, on October 15th, with 5 projects submitted by different members/contributors of the community. The projects are:
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Add Open-Telemetry support for Apache Airflow [1]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Convert Airflow Local Development environment (Breeze) from Bash-based to Python-based [2]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Create REST API for Apache Gora functions [3]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Implement distributed tracing for Apache ActiveMQ Artemis. [4]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Rewrite Github Action workflows to Python [5]
- Outreachy organizers communicated to us the current status of our fundings. We have received funds for 1 intern from Amazon, funds for 2 interns from Red hat, and funds for 2 interns from Indeed. A big thank you to our sponsors for supporting us on this program.
- The contribution period is opened until November 5th, 4 pm UTC. We have received some contributions from 2 candidates so far.
- Jarek Poliuk and Elad organized a workshop for Outreachy candidates on October 14th. Thank you so much Jarek and Elad for the great initiative. The workshop was focused on how the ASF works, how the Apache Airflow projects run, environment setup, what it means to contribute, how to ask for help, what to expect when it comes to response time, expectations, etc. [6]
*** Project: EDI Website
- no updates [7]
*** Topic: Criteria for inclusive words: CLC (Conscious Language Checker)
- No updates. [8][9]
*** Operations
- no updates.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- Restructure of the report in progress.
- Resuming tasks related to the contract during this week.
## Committee members changes:
No new members.
## References
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-11
[8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-38
[9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-39
October
## 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:
- None
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
- We continue on the round "December 2021 to March 2022". We finalized the project list period, on October 15th, with 5 projects submitted by different members/contributors of the community. The projects are:
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Add Open-Telemetry support for Apache Airflow [1]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Convert Airflow Local Development environment (Breeze) from Bash-based to Python-based [2]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Create REST API for Apache Gora functions [3]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Implement distributed tracing for Apache ActiveMQ Artemis. [4]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Rewrite Github Action workflows to Python [5]
- Outreachy organizers communicated to us the current status of our fundings. We have received funds for 1 intern from Amazon, funds for 2 interns from Red hat, and funds for 2 interns from Indeed. A big thank you to our sponsors for supporting us on this program.
- The contribution period is opened until November 5th, 4 pm UTC. We have received some contributions from 2 candidates so far.
- Jarek Poliuk and Elad organized a workshop for Outreachy candidates on October 14th. Thank you so much Jarek and Elad for the great initiative. The workshop was focused on how the ASF works, how the Apache Airflow projects run, environment setup, what it means to contribute, how to ask for help, what to expect when it comes to response time, expectations, etc. [6]
*** Project: EDI Website
- no updates [7]
*** Topic: Criteria for inclusive words: CLC (Conscious Language Checker)
- No updates. [8][9]
*** Operations
- no updates.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- Restructure of the report in progress.
- Resuming tasks related to the contract during this week.
## Committee members changes:
No new members.
## References
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-11
[8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-38
[9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-39
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:
- None
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
- Round "May 2021 - August 2021" has concluded with good feedback. Thank you Justin Ross for contributing to this program as a mentor on the project "Implement distributed tracing for Qpid Proton C++". [1][2]
Round "December 2021 to March 2022" has started [3]. We made the initial application as a community to get in the program and got confirmation for the budget from David Nalley as AWS representative. We have a budget for at least one intern, until now. Thank you David for helping us with the budget. Thank you Jarek Potiuk and Matt Sicker for looking for an additional budget on your side as well, every contribution counts!
- We are calling for mentors for the current round. [4]
For the current round (Dec2021-March2022), we received 2 project proposals from the Airflow PMC and possibly a third one coming. Airflow PMC' experience with the program has been successful, according to Jarek Potiuk's feedback, they had great success with the round a couple of years back - with Ephraim - the Outreachy Alumni, who just became a PMC Member of Apache Airflow!
*** Project: EDI Website
- We are asking for help for this project, see Jira ticket [5]
*** Topic: Criteria for inclusive words: CLC (Conscious Language Checker)
- Thank you so much Daniel Gruno and Rich Bowen for your amazing work and contribution to the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee, thank you for your patience and commitment. [6]
- Many topics have been discussed via ML [7] [8]. Thank you to all of you that provided feedback, shared good criticism, and made recommendations.
- Some of the topics discussed on the ML are: opt-in by default to the project, a list of sample words (with context), and sample replacements.
- Some Jira tickets have been opened to address the topics listed above: [9][10]
*** Operations
- FY2021: Katia received the information of FY2021.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- The goal of this second part of the project is to make actionable recommendations for ASF projects to spread the lessons learned. We will start with one ASF project (PMC) and one approach for improvements.
- Action items and progress:
- Approve final Report of the Community Survey & Contributor Experience: in progress. Joe Brockmeier and Bitergia team are working on final changes.
- Review contract and sign: We are delaying the signature of the contract because our representative in Google, Brittany Hermann, has to complete her onboarding process before having access to the budget for this project. Once, she can allocate the budget, we will proceed with the contract. A possible date to start working on this project is January 2022.
## Committee members changes:
Dave Fisher has been added to the committers list.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-may-2021-internship-round/
[3] https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2021-08-13/december-2021-initial-applications-open/
[4] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-11
[9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-38
[10] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-39
August
## 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:
- None
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
- Round "May 2021 - August 2021". The internship period is from May 24, 2021, to August 24, 2021. For this round, we are working with one intern. [1][2] and one mentor, Justin Ross, on the project "Implement distributed tracing for Qpid Proton C++".
Mid-point feedback was provided by the mentor on July 5, 2021. There are 2 weeks remaining on the internship.
*** Project: Website
- No updates. [3]
*** Topic: Criteria for inclusive words
- This is Daniel Gruno's initiative, CLC (Conscious Language Checker) for Apache projects. We would like to encourage you to participate, the VM is up and running at https://clc.diversity.apache.org/ and has ASF Oauth implemented, so any committer can make use of the service.
- We would like to create a blog post about this project for an external audience, we believe this project can be used in places outside the PMC. We are receiving help from Joe Brockmeier, Greg Stein, and Andrew Wetmore.
*** Operations
- FY2021: Katia will receive information about the budget to make plans for the rest of the FY.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
- The goal of this second part of the project is to make actionable recommendations for ASF projects to spread the lessons learned. We will start with one ASF project (PMC) and one approach for improvements.
- Action items and progress:
- Approve final Report of the Community Survey & Contributor Experience: Joe Brockmeier is helping us with the report and its publication. We will meet Bitergia to analyze our strategy in the next weeks.
- Identify PMC that could participate in the second part of the research project to test one improvement approach: the potential PMC to start the project is Apache Beam, we are opening the discussions with Brittany Hermann.
- Select one improvement approach: no updates.
- Review contract and sign: Katia will sign the contract. We are pending for one last discussion with Brittany Hermann from Google related to the budget.
## Committee members changes:
None.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-may-2021-internship-round/
[2] https://www.outreachy.org/alums/2021-05/
July 2021
## 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:
- None
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
- Round "May 2021 - August 2021". The internship period is from May 24, 2021, to August 24, 2021. For this round we are working with one intern. [1][2]
- Justin Ross, mentor of the project "Implement distributed tracing for Qpid Proton C++" provided good feedback on the internship.
- We initiated discussions about the funding for future rounds. [3]
*** Project: Website
- No updates. The discussion keeps inactive. We will consider working with a contractor. If you would like to reactivate this discussion and-or contribute to this initiative, please see[4]
*** Topic: Criteria for inclusive words
- Daniel Gruno's initiative, CLC (Conscious Language Checker) for Apache projects, is progressing and has received positive comments from the community. See [5][6]
- Please, note that the VM is up and running at https://clc.diversity.apache.org/ and has ASF Oauth implemented, so any committer can make use of the service. We would like to encourage you to participate.
*** Operations
- FY2021: no updates.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
First meeting with Bitergia. Katia Rojas met Bitergia team and Brittany Hermann from Google. We discussed the next steps for the research project and reviewed the output of the research [7]
- The goal of this second part of the project is to make actionable recommendations for ASF projects to spread the lessons learned. We will start with one ASF project (PMC) and one approach for improvements.
- Action items:
- Approve final Report of the Community Survey & Contributor Experience
- Identify PMC that could participate in the second part of the research project to test one improvement approach.
- Select one improvement approach. Bitergia has suggested 3. We will discuss the options with the community and present our decision to Bitergia to trigger this secodn part of the project.
- Review contract and sign.
## Committee members changes:
None.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-may-2021-internship-round/
[2] https://www.outreachy.org/alums/2021-05/
[3] 2021-07-01 EDI Meeting notes
[7] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1upFRbHrAyctOM92G1SYnQj3BjXtcipLbeGL03IfQNQQ/edit?usp=sharing
June 2021
## Description:
- The Diversity and Inclusion VP works in collaboration with a team who 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:
- None
## Activity:
*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***
- Currently working on the round "May 2021 - August 2021". The internship period is from May 24, 2021, to August 24, 2021. [1]
- We are on week 3 of the internship: progressing as expected. There is one intern working on one project.
- The project of the current round is: Implement distributed tracing for Qpid Proton C++. Justin Ross is the mentor and he will provide feedback on the ongoing internship.
*** Project: Website
- The discussion opened in the mailing list has been inactive for almost a month [2]. We are not able to find any webmasters to help us developing or maintaining the technical or design parts of the website.
- The next step will be to discuss a possible contractor involvement.
*** Topic: Criteria for inclusive words
- Daniel Gruno asked for lazy consensus for a VM with the purpose of setting up a CLC (Conscious Language Checker) for Apache projects.
- The lazy consensus was obtained and the VM is up and running at https://clc.diversity.apache.org/ and has ASF Oauth implemented, so any committer can make use of the service.
- Daniel has added few projects to try things out, and according to his feedback, it seems to work.[3]
- Next steps: figure out how to communicate this to all projects in a way that is well perceived, so they can make use of it?
*** Operations
- Onboarding on D&I VP tasks: Katia Rojas had an onboarding meeting with Gris Cuevas, David Nalley, and Ruth Suehle to onboard her on the new role of VP and explain tasks and responsibilities.
- FY2021: no updates.
- Bitergia: Katia Rojas was introduced to Bitergia's team to take over pending project tasks. The next meeting to align with the team will be set for the end of June.
*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***
No updates.
## Committee members changes:
None.
## References
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-may-2021-internship-round/
May 2021
## Description:
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- The "December 2020 - March 2021" round has concluded successfully with 6 interns in total, on 6 different projects.
- We submitted our application for round "May 2021 - August 2021" and got accepted to participate in the program.
- We used the same communication channels as before, multiple emails via mailing list and blog post [4]
- We got confirmation of funds for one intern.
- The new intern will work on the project: Implement distributed tracing for Qpid Proton C++ [1][2]
- The intership internship period is : from May 24, 2021, 2021 to to August 24, 2021. [3]
*** Project: website
We are calling for webmasters to help us developing or maintaining the technical or design parts of the website.
- We are looking for someone who can help us getting get the site in a state where content writers can help contribute. [6]
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- During May, the community has been discussing about criterias criteria for inclusive words [5]. This could be a potential project we could follow up but we don't have resources (people) to work on it.
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[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/diversity-dev/202007.mbox/%3cCACmp6krKdtec-O12NweN5KM5nWhTWs_YhrR38tbxdPK1KWzc3g@mail.gmail.com%3e
June 2020
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