On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:37:06AM -0400, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > Tomorrow I am speaking on Inclusion, Meritocracy & the Apache Way for > ApacheCon in Montreal. > > Any suggestions of things to help improve inclusion that would be good > to add to my presso? > > Something you think that would make it just a little easier for someone > to join or lower a barrier to entry? Trying to mix fun with hard analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Hruska#Mediocrity For Apache, would Mediocrity in a person count as a merit because it represents an important part of the user basis, if not community, or could it only be counted as an inclusion factor, or would that factor be a sure aspect leading to exclusion and discrimination ? In more boring words: Your presentation inclusion section does not answer hard questions like "why would we not have natural diversity, and here is how much of a problem exists" ? Does your org think it needs affirmative action to fix it, and if so, why does it think that would work ? Which of the inclusion factors really need to be considered because we do not see natural diversity for it, and can it really be effective ? How much does the capability to communicate in english come into play - written?//verbal? ? etc. pp. I always have problems looking at boilerplate text about inclusion, because to me it sounds like the promise to to explicitly do something good - without ever stating what exactly that is, why it is needed and why it can be efficient and effective. I think its a lot easier to start rephrasing "do no evil against diversity": - exclusion or discrimination due to (insert list) is in violation of the community standards - we reflect on our possible biases to minize acting on them. (insert good reading on self examining and avoidance of biases) I think thats i think as much as anybody can promise to do towards inclusion unless harder questions are being answered first and more explicit inclusiveness action is well defined. Cheers Toerless P.S.: Nice slides otherwise! > Prelim slides at > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XnSiwPw2zQYcKhC80qmSjawpxtkYSUSOUXbm2Q7BOCo/edit#slide=id.g42d7232bcf_0_0 > > Regards, > KAM -- --- tte@xxxxxxxxx
