<div dir="ltr">You got it Mike! Donating now!<div><br></div><div>This is awe-inspiring. Male allies are what we need, and you are delivering.<br><div><br></div><div>Anne</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Mike Perez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thingee@gmail.com" target="_blank">thingee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Some of you may already be aware of Sage Weil’s challenge to the open source<br>
storage community to raise the level of female participation in open source by<br>
contributing to the Ada Initiative [1]. I would also like to share about the<br>
Ada Initiative, and how they are helping open source communities like<br>
OpenStack. I’m also going to increase Sage’s original matching to $10,000 and<br>
extend a personal challenge [2] to the OpenStack community. If you already know<br>
about the Ada Initiative, you can donate now:<br>
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<a href="https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack" target="_blank">https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack</a><br>
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The current status of the campaign can be found here:<br>
<a href="https://adainitiative.org/counters/2014counter-openstack.svg" target="_blank">https://adainitiative.org/counters/2014counter-openstack.svg</a><br>
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The Ada Initiative has helped over two million women get and stay involved with<br>
open source communities. The organization helps communities understand<br>
a culture that needs to exist in order to successfully achieve diversity. While<br>
women make up about 30% of the software developer community, they only account<br>
for less than 10% of the open source community.<br>
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On a personal level this is something that I have been actively committed to<br>
doing and I have had the wonderful opportunity to volunteer as a mentor at<br>
a couple of groups that are bringing diversity to the tech community. The<br>
PyLadies San Francisco group is providing exciting workshops [3] that will give<br>
a foundation to women to expand on. The Women Who Code group is preparing women<br>
for internship opportunities through the Gnome Outreach Program for Women in<br>
open source projects like OpenStack [4]. It's these experiences that led me to<br>
explore how the OpenStack community promotes diversity.<br>
<br>
Today the OpenStack community has been including a Code of Conduct [5] in an<br>
attempt to provide a safe, no harassment environment at our summits. We have<br>
events [6] that bring women together to talk about their achievements, to get<br>
others excited on what can be contributed to the community. Our participation<br>
in the Gnome Outreach Program for Women continues to grow with mentors eager to<br>
bring out the talent of our selected interns [7]. Things are getting better<br>
but we have a long way to go. The Atlanta design summit had attendance of 9%<br>
women, up from 7% at the previous Hong Kong summit. But this number is still<br>
unacceptable, and as others have echoed in the community, we must work to make<br>
it better.<br>
<br>
This is a change I want the OpenStack community to be part of. I would like to<br>
kick start things with the community with a challenge for us to raise $10,000<br>
before Wednesday, Oct 8th, to which Sage and I will match that dollar for<br>
dollar!<br>
<br>
<a href="https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack" target="_blank">https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack</a><br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Mike Perez<br>
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[1] - <a href="http://ceph.com/community/support-ada-initiative-challenge-open-storage-community" target="_blank">http://ceph.com/community/support-ada-initiative-challenge-open-storage-community</a><br>
[2] - <a href="https://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2014/10/06/support-the-ada-initiative-a-challenge-to-the-openstack-community/" target="_blank">https://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2014/10/06/support-the-ada-initiative-a-challenge-to-the-openstack-community/</a><br>
[3] - <a href="http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesSF/events/201387112/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesSF/events/201387112/</a><br>
[4] - <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-SF/events/195850392/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-SF/events/195850392/</a><br>
[5] - <a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/code-of-conduct/" target="_blank">https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/code-of-conduct/</a><br>
[6] - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzyNbvl_5g" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzyNbvl_5g</a><br>
[7] - <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OutreachProgramForWomen" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OutreachProgramForWomen</a><br>
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