<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>You're all awesome, as the goal has already been met! The matching challenge has just been raised to $16,384!</div><div><br></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack">https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack</a></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Status: </span></font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://adainitiative.org/counters/2014counter-openstack.svg">https://adainitiative.org/counters/2014counter-openstack.svg</a></span></div><br><div>--</div>Mike Perez</div><div><br>On Oct 6, 2014, at 11:33, Mike Perez <<a href="mailto:thingee@gmail.com">thingee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Some of you may already be aware of Sage Weil’s challenge to the open source</span><br><span>storage community to raise the level of female participation in open source by</span><br><span>contributing to the Ada Initiative [1]. I would also like to share about the</span><br><span>Ada Initiative, and how they are helping open source communities like</span><br><span>OpenStack. I’m also going to increase Sage’s original matching to $10,000 and</span><br><span>extend a personal challenge [2] to the OpenStack community. If you already know</span><br><span>about the Ada Initiative, you can donate now:</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack">https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>The current status of the campaign can be found here:</span><br><span><a href="https://adainitiative.org/counters/2014counter-openstack.svg">https://adainitiative.org/counters/2014counter-openstack.svg</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>The Ada Initiative has helped over two million women get and stay involved with</span><br><span>open source communities. The organization helps communities understand</span><br><span>a culture that needs to exist in order to successfully achieve diversity. While</span><br><span>women make up about 30% of the software developer community, they only account</span><br><span>for less than 10% of the open source community.</span><br><span></span><br><span>On a personal level this is something that I have been actively committed to</span><br><span>doing and I have had the wonderful opportunity to volunteer as a mentor at</span><br><span>a couple of groups that are bringing diversity to the tech community. The</span><br><span>PyLadies San Francisco group is providing exciting workshops [3] that will give</span><br><span>a foundation to women to expand on. The Women Who Code group is preparing women</span><br><span>for internship opportunities through the Gnome Outreach Program for Women in</span><br><span>open source projects like OpenStack [4]. It's these experiences that led me to</span><br><span>explore how the OpenStack community promotes diversity.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Today the OpenStack community has been including a Code of Conduct [5] in an</span><br><span>attempt to provide a safe, no harassment environment at our summits. We have</span><br><span>events [6] that bring women together to talk about their achievements, to get</span><br><span>others excited on what can be contributed to the community. Our participation</span><br><span>in the Gnome Outreach Program for Women continues to grow with mentors eager to</span><br><span>bring out the talent of our selected interns [7]. Things are getting better</span><br><span>but we have a long way to go. The Atlanta design summit had attendance of 9%</span><br><span>women, up from 7% at the previous Hong Kong summit. But this number is still</span><br><span>unacceptable, and as others have echoed in the community, we must work to make</span><br><span>it better.</span><br><span></span><br><span>This is a change I want the OpenStack community to be part of. I would like to</span><br><span>kick start things with the community with a challenge for us to raise $10,000</span><br><span>before Wednesday, Oct 8th, to which Sage and I will match that dollar for</span><br><span>dollar!</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack">https://supportada.org?campaign=openstack</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Thanks,</span><br><span>Mike Perez</span><br><span></span><br><span>[1] - <a href="http://ceph.com/community/support-ada-initiative-challenge-open-storage-community">http://ceph.com/community/support-ada-initiative-challenge-open-storage-community</a></span><br><span>[2] - <a href="https://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2014/10/06/support-the-ada-initiative-a-challenge-to-the-openstack-community/">https://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2014/10/06/support-the-ada-initiative-a-challenge-to-the-openstack-community/</a></span><br><span>[3] - <a href="http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesSF/events/201387112/">http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesSF/events/201387112/</a></span><br><span>[4] - <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-SF/events/195850392/">http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-SF/events/195850392/</a></span><br><span>[5] - <a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/code-of-conduct/">https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/code-of-conduct/</a></span><br><span>[6] - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzyNbvl_5g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzyNbvl_5g</a></span><br><span>[7] - <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OutreachProgramForWomen">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OutreachProgramForWomen</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>