<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""> I can help in reviving the Group. What kind of help is needed?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks</div><div class="">Sravani<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 20, 2017, at 9:27 PM, Amy Marrich <<a href="mailto:amy@demarco.com" class="">amy@demarco.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="">At the Sydney Summit, there seemed to be interest in re-activating the Diversity WG. I am sending this email to give some background on the group as well as to gauge interest.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A charter was proposed to the board May 2015 by Egle <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class="">Sigler, </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class="">Kavit Munshi, and </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class="">Imad Sousou to form the group [1]. The group was formed a short time later with Egle Sigler and Carol Barrett as co-chairs and falling under the oversight of the Board. </span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class="">The main work of the diversity group was the diversity survey and its results which were released prior to the Tokyo Summit in October, 2015 and we had about 20 people show up for the Working Group session held there to go over the results. </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class="">A working group session was also held at the Austin Summit with about 10 people in attendance. It was not long after the Austin summit that the group membership dwindled down and activity ended.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class="">Things that came out of the work of the Diversity WG are the Git and Gerrit Lunch and Learn held at the last 5 summits, the Communication Tools Lunch and Learn held in Barcelona, and the Greeters in Barcelona that were provided by the Women of OpenStack.</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class="">I feel there is still work to do in this area even if only revisiting the survey and gathering more data that can be </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class="">evaluated</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class=""> and used to help grow the community. </span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">If you are interested in helping to revive the Diversity WG please let me know. The group used the Foundation mailing list (<a href="mailto:foundation@lists.openstack.org" class="">foundation@lists.openstack.org</a>) with the [Diversity] tag and still has the #openstack-diversity channel on Freenode though it is not currently being logged as Egle and myself until recently were the only 2 members.</div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class="">Thanks,</span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class="">Amy Marrich (spotz)</span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif" class="">[1] <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Diversity/ProposedCharter" style="" class="">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Diversity/ProposedCharter</a></font><br class=""></div></div>
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