2021 Strategic Priorities

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Last updated: Mar 28, 2022 by Daniela Barbosa
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Notice March 28th, 2022.

Please note that we have moved discussions about diversity and inclusion related initiatives to the Technical Steering Committee calls and mailing lists.  This was done to bring these discussions to a larger group of community members, including the elected technical leaders on the TSC.  Everyone is welcome to join the TSC forums (including the TSC mailing list, #TSC chat channel and weekly calls) to be a part of these discussions and we encourage you to join the conversation if you are interested in how to make a more inclusive and diverse Hyperledger community. 

III. 2021 Planning: Goals for the DCI WG 

For reference, here is the culmination of the WG's discussion from last year, we put together a number of TSC and Governing Board Motions, some of which have been and are being implemented, others which are included in the table below as part of our goals for 2021 broken down by themes. Please review them here: Turning Recommendations into Proposed Motions for the GB and TSC for reference. 


2021 ThemesComments/QuestionsWG MembersNext Steps

Engagement and Partnerships - Nurture the pipeline

Identify Governing Board point persons to join DCI meetings and participate in our activitiesWe welcomed several new members who have jumped right into key areas (on the technical and marketing side). The following weeks should focus on aggregating more support for specific areas of the 2021 execution plan and following up with nominees who haven't yet attended. 
  1. Follow-Up w/ nominees who have not yet participated.
  2. Update GB with highlights on participation.  

Engagement and partnership with outside organizations

  1. HBCUs
  2. Girls Who Code, etc.
  3. Black Girls Who Code https://www.blackgirlscode.com/
  4. SHE-256
  5. Code2040 http://www.code2040.org/
  6. Blockchain Education Network
  7. Bowie State University Blockchain Association
  8. Women of Color in Blockchain
  9. Women of Color National Policy Network
  10. Crypto Queens
  11. Caribbean Blockchain Alliance

  12. Blacks in Technology https://training.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/blacks-in-technology-and-the-linux-foundation-partner-to-offer-up-to-100000-in-training-certification-to-deserving-individuals/

  13. Black Women Blockchain Council


David Boswell
  1. Identify purpose 
  2. Develop engagement plan

Broader Linux Foundation



TBD

Greater Participation & Visibility at Events & Community 

Goals & Objective : Share more meaningful, honest, conversations. Such as and work on improving the DCI narrative.  (i.e. Blog on Africa zoom bombing experience and Personal stories) 

Hyperledger: Global Forum and Member Summit Linux Foundation: Open source summit

Other DCI initiatives at the Linux Foundation - https://chaoss.community/about/  and  https://github.com/chaoss/wg-diversity-inclusion

Global Forum - 06/8 - 06/10

Member Summit Linux Foundation: Open source summit - 11/2 - 11/4 


  1. See what CHAOSS is programming for Linux Foundation: Open source summit. 
3rd Party: Grace Hopper

vGHI (Grace Hopper India) is happening this 2/19, any participation from our community?

US - 9/26 - 9/29 2021 


TBD

TSC Meetings


Decision (2/5): Keep it bite sized and purposeful. Bring proposals up as workstreams require (avoid periodic inclusion w/o objectives). Suggest DCI topic lighting talks, provide tangible recommendations, or solicit feedback on certain programs. 

Grace Hartley (Deactivated)is on the TSC and has agreed to be the liaison on topics of interest.  


Cultural Campaigns & Monthly themes

  1. Jan DCI editorial theme
    1. Blog on inclusive terminology
  2. February Black History Month
  3. March International Women's month, March 1 Day of Zero Discrimination, 21 March International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  4. June Pride
  5. etc....


Approach: Could build around international days that are centered in diversity, civility, and inclusion (see https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/). For example 1 March is the day of zero discrimination, , 16 November International Day for Tolerance , 3 December International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
  1. Finalize guests for BHM fireside chat Lindsay Nuon
  2. Work w/ Karen Ottoni to support ideas for Womens Month 
  3. Work w/ marketing to start planning pride campaign 

DCI in Hyperledger technology 

Inclusive terminology in software and documentation


Ry Jones Peter Somogyvari Grace Hartley (Deactivated) David Boswell

  1. Review the naming list https://inclusivenaming.org/
  2. Establish clear guidance on how projects can easily incorporate dci-lint 
  3. Share blog, Besu documentation of changes
  4. Recognition of Peter on upcoming TSC call with suggested along w/ socializing a plan for how projects can incorporate dci-lint

Community Recognition

  1. Badging: Hyperledger planning a pilot on this this year

David Boswell
  1. Work with TSC to and create recommendations for new and improved DCI Badge Criteria

Brainstorm "DCI Service Offerings" and create resources and references to disseminate to the community and create resources for the Hyperledger Community. 

Our goal here is to increasing contributors in projects and diversity in projects by providing templates, guides, and tools for the to use that make the work more attractive and accessible.



Finalize Maintainer responsibilities 

David and Lindsay to socialize potential trainings and requirements identified w/ maintainer community, and gather feedback. 

For reference https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/module-ownership/ ; https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/inclusive-open-source-community-orientation-lfc102/

David Boswell& Lindsay Nuon

  1. Meet w/ Maintainer leads
  2. Bring feedback & AIs back to the DCI

Develop a guides for DCI in Open Source projects 




  1. Do some research on Mozilla, other open source communities, CHAOSS, Open source Diversity Foundation> do a landscape
  2. Make a guide specific to our community - starting w/ maintainer community 
DCI Operations 
Work on marketing & comms strategy Note: Group to revisit discussion on what DCI means. 

Partner w/ Alissa Worleyon this. 

  1. Lindsay Nuon Meet w/ Helen
  2. Sync w/ staff to better understand timelines and targets for participation (for long and short term areas of interest). 
  3. Develop an event calendar w/ events and campaigns.  
Develop a Project Portfolio 

Notes on current Backlog include:

  • Partner with other projects to create an LF-wide DCI community
  • Revist COC Proposal 
  • Support Hyperledger Localization Initiative
  • Relaunch speaker series 

  1. Turn high-level plans into a project plans in the thematic areas mentioned above 
  2. Create supporting success metrics to drive progress and collaboration
  3. Revisit and groom our backlog 
  4. Finalize w/ DCI and publish to wiki
Revamp Wiki 


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