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

What

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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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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What does diversity mean?

Diversity in gender? Ethnicity? Age? What else?

Main two are gender and ethnicity.

What are the objectives?

Increase involvement of under-represented groups in Apache projects

Attract under-represented groups to the ASF

Retain under-represented groups within the ASF (no use attracting new people if the older ones leave)

Maintain diversity as a reflection of "population diversity" or what else? (part of this is defining a level or taget of diversity the ASF want to reach, plus being able to monitor it to confirm it)

Possible Strategic Plan

1. Set a diversity goal / vision / target (e.g we want to have x% of xyz group by ????)
2. Identify the under-represented groups within the ASF

How can we achieve this? 

• Find out what diversity we have now
• Could start with a survey of gender and ethnicity of ASF Board, Members, PMCs and Committers to get some fairly quick figures. (Not sure how representative they will be of the entire ASF population but it will be a start and it will be concrete figures)
• Could be followed up by anonymous surveys of individual projects (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. Lessons learned from initial projects can help revise and refine methodology for others)

1. Measure / benchmark the current diversity level
   1. This is the starting point
2. Define a detailed programme and plan for communicating and engaging with the under-represented groups
   1. Partnering with groups
   2. Being present at events
   3. Presenting / Doing Talks about Apache
   4. Communicating the them about the ASF programmes that could help

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

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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