This is an under-development, unapproved, draft of a Diversity and Inclusion Resources page.

Codes of Conduct

Apache Software Foundation Code of Conduct This code of conduct applies to all spaces managed by the Apache Software Foundation, including IRC, all public and private mailing lists, issue trackers, wikis, blogs, Twitter, and any other communication channel used by our communities.

Apache Software Foundation Anti-Harassment Policy This policy, adopted by the Apache Conference Committee, is specific to actual meetings.

Contributor Covenant A code of conduct that has been adopted by several other organizations.

FAQs

FAQs from other organizations may provide inspiration, and, to the extent permitted by their licensing, input to our FAQ.

Contributor Covenant FAQ FAQ associated with the Contributor Covenant. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 License

On demanding answers

Black people are not here to teach you Set primarily in terms of race relations in the US, but much more generally applicable. Unless we are students in e.g. a women's studies class, nobody is obligated to teach us, we are each responsible for our own learning.

Unconscious Bias

https://www.ted.com/talks/yassmin_abdel_magied_what_does_my_headscarf_mean_to_you 14 minute Ted talk on unconscious bias. Much of the talk involves clothing, and so is mainly applicable to face-to-face meetings. It also covers the effect of names on resume callbacks, relevant to e-mail etc.

Gender Bias in Leader Selection? Evidence from a Hiring Simulation Study Academic article exploring several dimensions of bias in selecting candidates for a leadership position. Points relevant to ASF:

• Changing the name on a resume between "Peter Keller" and "Petra Keller" affected some of the results.
• That effect reduced when the resume included clear evidence of leadership ability.

Inclusive Events

https://github.com/hcorona/diversity-inclusion A GitHub repository containing collected guidelines for running inclusive and diverse conferences.

Multi-topic Collections

The links in this section point to collections of articles and other links that cover a range of topics.

https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki

https://communitymgt.fandom.com/wiki/Community_Management_Wiki

https://opensourcediversity.org/

Organizational Anti-Patterns

Examples of things that can go wrong.

https://medium.com/the-nonprofit-revolution/8-ways-people-of-color-are-tokenized-in-nonprofits-32138d0860c1 Even organizations that try to involve minorities may fail to allow them real authority.

http://interpretereducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Characteristics-of-the-Opressed_110314.pdf Illustration of some problems of relationships with an imbalance in actual power.

https://communitymgt.fandom.com/wiki/Cookie_Licking Someone takes control of a task in a way that inhibits other contributions, but does not finish it.