2020 04 29

Open

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• 10 AM pacific on April 29, 2020

• https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community.backup

• None this week

• Guest Speaker: Swarna Podila

• (Remaining Agenda deferred to next session)

  • Action Item Review

    • Survey Analysis

  • Pride Month

    • Met with Marketing committee about joint work for June

      • MC has DCI Editorial Theme for June

      • Requested member companies come back to next MC call with their June campaigns and how we can collaborate.

      • Suggested providing HL DCI logo etc. for member campaigns and cross promoting

  • Monthly speaker series

    • Let's get monthly speakers which will help grow participation and stimulate ideas for other actions this committee can take.

    • Recruit from

      • member companies

      • prominent industry individuals

    • Promote through HL channels / social etc.

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• Cloud Foundry Background

  • 5 years under LF; 10 years total

  • DCI not organizationally addressed but shared responsibility among foundation staff (~5) and community (~30k)

• Inclusivity best practices

  • Docs are a common first landing point, make sure these are accurate and accessible

  • Tagging issues as "good first issue"

  • Is the code readable for a new contributor?

• Working groups

  • Diminished over time - similar experience with HL

  • Remaining 2 SIGs:

    • Integrations (cloud foundry using k8s)

    • Operators

  • Marketing Working Group

• Annual Summits (1 in N.A.; 1 in EU)

  • Foundation hosted

    • Program committee from community who votes on program co-chairs

      • Foundation gives DCI guidance to community on breadth of topics (beginner to advanced) and speaker diversity (all aspects of diversity including company affiliation).

      • Show rather than tell: Best practice is not to introduce a speaker by their diverse characteristics

    • Diversity talks: 

      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wp8Bu_FfiY&list=PLhuMOCWn4P9ivmL2suycVIg-ySW_Vw4Rl&index=49&t=0s

      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwOZVlVoA5I&list=PLhuMOCWn4P9ivmL2suycVIg-ySW_Vw4Rl&index=115&t=0s

    • Diversity Luncheons have been successful and growing over time:

      • Cloud Foundry EU Summit 2019 Diversity Luncheon

      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmQFIr7R-aE&feature=youtu.be

    • Community Awards ← (This looks like a good tool for HL to adopt)

      • Different categories each year

        • e.g. Top contributor, voice of X, community named category

        • Best end user story

        • Best at welcoming new community / inclusive approach / etc.

• Measurement

  • Abandoned surveys because of poor response rate. This echos HL experience so far ... ~10% response rate.

  • Instead using: 

    • https://cloudfoundry.biterg.io/

    • Covers some stats like company diversity but not general demographics

  • Event demographics are easier to track because of registration

• Misc:

  • Help be aware of language ...

    • ("guys" vs. "people" or "folks"). 

    • "easy" - nothing is easy or obvious to new contributors

  • https://textio.com/ is a tool to help check for biased language ..

    • often used for job postings

    • includes a gender bias meter