[Women-of-openstack] Diversity & Inclusion in Open Source

Emma Irwin eirwin at mozilla.com
Mon Jan 8 18:34:22 UTC 2018


Thanks Amy!

I'll email the diversity group next to see if someone would be interested
in interviewing with our researcher - thanks for including the survey, I'll
also report back here with our summary when it's ready later in Jan/early
Feb.!


On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Amy Marrich <amy at demarco.com> wrote:

> Hi Emma,
>
> OpenStack also has a Diversity Working Group that is on
> #openstack-diversity on Freenode and uses the
> foundation at lists.openstack.org mailing list with subject [Divsersity]. We
> will be having a meeting next Monday at 19:00 UTC and your survey will
> definitely be discussed, love some of your question and response wording!
>
> Please feel free to join us on channel any time or at the meeting.
>
> Amy (spotz)
>
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Emma Irwin <eirwin at mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Women of OpenStack!
>>
>> I am so happy to know you exist!
>>
>> My name is Emma, and I work on Diversity and Inclusion at Mozilla.  Last
>> year we invested in a lot of research to better understand
>> <https://medium.com/mozilla-open-innovation/a-time-for-action-innovating-for-diversity-inclusion-in-open-source-communities-6922fef4675e>
>> what we mean by diversity and inclusion in FOSS, with a number of
>> recommendations coming out of that.  Two of those recommendations were to
>> build metrics that matter,
>> <https://medium.com/mozilla-open-innovation/reflection-inclusive-organizing-for-open-source-communities-9c44f0b689c1>
>> and to invest in ways of collaborating with other individuals and open
>> projects  - to really generate change.
>>
>> To those goals I want to ask *if you would be wiling to share our survey
>> <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/diversity-inclusion-in-open-source-survey/23733>
>> *with your community, and whether anyone representing this group would
>> be available for an interview with our researcher - who is looking into how
>> we might form a collaborative for D&I accross open source projects.
>>
>> Thanks for your time, and of course happy to take questions or provide
>> more information on our work! 2018 for sure is all about taking our
>> research, and driving real change this year - would love to learn from you
>> as well!
>>
>> --
>> Emma Irwin
>> Community Development
>> Open Innovation Team
>>
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>


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Emma Irwin
Community Development
Open Innovation Team
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