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Diversity Working Group

Status: Active

Organisers: Imad Sousou (imad.sousou@intel.com), Egle Sigler (ushnishtha@hotmail.com), Kavit Munshi (Kavit@aptira.com)

Charter (working draft)

In an effort to assert and facilitate the incorporation of diversity policies into its overall strategy, the Board of Directors of the OpenStack Foundation is committed to fostering a more inclusive and welcoming place for all people to collaborate and drive innovation and design cutting-edge data center capabilities, while finding the best answers to our most pressing challenges<what are those?>.

This work group will sponsor and create programs that encourage diversity by identifying and removing the barriers that keep us from having a diverse, thriving community. The programs defined by this work group will apply to the Board of Directors, OpenStack Foundation, Technical Committee, PTLs, Developers and the entire OpenStack Community. Each program will have specific success metrics and the work group will provide regular updates on all programs to the Board as well as the Community.

Programs sponsored and/or created by the Diversity Work Group will require Board of Directors approval. The work group will review existing Foundation programs and policies on a regular basis to evaluate their performance and effectiveness. The work group will collaborate with the TC, User committee and the BoD to ensure that all programs are meeting their diversity goals.

Diversity is defined as all the ways people differ from one another including race, color, religion, sex, national origin, language, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation and other aspects. This includes elements such as personal background, experiences, education, thinking processes, approaches to problem solving and life experiences. Diversity takes into account similarities and differences in all individuals around the world and can involve multiple aspects, including geographic location, country of origin, economic class or position, cultural norms and traditional societal norms. The differences range from subtle nuances to very clear points of difference – this is the nature of diversity.

Mail List

Sign-up for the Foundation mailing list to follow discussions about this work groupː http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation

Diversity Team Meetings

Logisticsː

IRC Channelː #openstack-diversity
July 16, 2015ː 5ː00 UTC Etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OpenStackDiversity.2
July 23, 2015ː 17ː00 UTC Etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OpenStackDiversity.3
July 30, 2015ː 5ː00 UTC Etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OpenStackDiversity.4
August 6, 2015ː 17ː00 UTC Etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OpenStackDiversity.5

Agenda

• Work Group Charter Discussion
  
  • Goalː Propose changes to the Charter on the Wiki page so that it captures necessary elements, while maintaining a reasonable scope so that it is actionable
    
• Diversity Policy Update - Kavit
  • Draft or Outline the policy and key points to include as input to the effort Kavit is leading
    
• Ambassador Program Update - Niki
  
  • This program was aimed at increasing the global OpenStack community participation in this work group by establishing regional ambassadors who can represent a group of people who may not be able to attend. Looking to get feedback on the concept and a strawperson for approach
• Diversity Data Analysis
  
  • This was a hot topic at the last team meeting. Refer to the etherpad link in Egle's minutes for more detail. We need to define a methodology for how we want to conduct the data analysis of our community to create a profile that will be credible, and from there identify issues/opportunities to foster more inclusion in our community