General mission type statements eg
To make the ASF a culturally diverse and representative community
To increase the diversity of the ASF
Diversity in gender? Ethnicity? Age? What else?
Main two are gender and ethnicity.
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
Set a diversity goal / vision / target (e.g we want to have x% of xyz group by ????)
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)
Measure / benchmark the current diversity level