Just a few rough notes in the right wiki space now form our BOF at the conference in Oct 2023 - please add your updates/corrections!

Attendees (incomplete, add your name if I missed it)

  • marayve@
  • aarora@
  • Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe (our keynoter! yay!)
  • curcuru@
  • glauesppen@
  • striker@
  • rbowen@
  • nick@
  • rskraba@

How do we continue these BOF conversations in the future? 

Slack or mailing list - opinions on both sides.

How do we make people (of any background/type/culture/language) feel welcome?

  • Lot of discussion about being very inclusive in various perspectives.
  • Ideas: how can we ensure that projects provide at least some way to translate their projects, so that non-native English speakers can feel more comfortable to get started.
  • Idea: use good-first-issue tags on various issues/roadmaps, signposting easy places new contributors could join.
    • Existing kinds of tags in other projects: https://goodfirstissue.dev/ https://goodfirstissues.com/ and various other places on github like: https://github.com/topics/good-first-issue
    • Are there other kinds of tags that would be useful, like docs-wanted, or editing-wanted, or the like?
    • How can we make it easier for various ASF projects to adopt these kinds of tags?  Each community is a separate one, so we need really simple ways to explain to them how to do this, why it's important, and how easy it can be.

How do we help other ASF projects improve inclusion?

  • Idea: how can the ASF as a whole better showcase the projects that do actually actively reach out for new people, that have good-first-issue tags, etc. - projects that are truly welcoming and want to find newcomers?
    • How can we create a simple "these ASF projects are welcoming, try them!" page? 
  • Add a page in the https://community.apache.org/ with some good practices on how to create better documentation or project websites that support accessibility.
  • How can we - in an organized fashion - do a better job of sharing the good examples of inclusion with other projects that might not quite do as good a job? 
  • How do we make it easy for a PMC to understand the importance and then take a few simple but concrete steps to make incremental improvements?
    • Get success cases with CHAOSS and other communities?
  • There are many existing presentations/guides/how-tos about DEI out there.  We need volunteers to pick a few good ones, then write an introduction about that presentation that's directly speaking to ASF communities - i.e. a translation of concepts into PMCs/committers/Apache Way concepts. 
    • If we can publish or point to existing guides elsewhere, but provide the context that explains that in ASF terms, it makes it much easier for some of our PMCs to see why it's important and how they can easily implement some steps. 
    • It also really helps to have resources hosted on an apache.org domain; so we should work on building out the diversity.apache.org website to have more guided links to external resources while helping ASF communities understand where to start.


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