In preparation for moving off the Wiki to a more permanent page on the
website, the WG spent our meeting today cleaning up the current content.
While doing this we noticed that the charter was out of date, mentioning
the OpenStack Foundation, just the OpenStack community, etc. We would like
to propose the following updated charter to the Board for review and
possible vote.
Thanks,
Amy
In an effort to assert and facilitate the incorporation of diversity
policies into its overall strategy, the Board of Directors of the OpenInfra
Foundation (“Board”) is committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming
place for all people to collaborate and drive innovation and design
cutting-edge data center capabilities that provide solutions for our most
pressing challenges.
This working group sponsors and creates programs that encourage diversity
and inclusion by identifying and removing the barriers that keep us from
having a diverse, thriving community. The programs recommended by this
working group will apply to the board of directors, foundation members,
project leaders, contributors, and their associated communities. Each
program has specific success metrics and the working group provides regular
updates on all programs to the Board as well as the Communities.
The diversity working group, like other Board committees, is supervised by
the Board who has authority to approve its proposals. The Board may choose
to exercise such authority by setting guidelines for the scope and
implementation of such programs. The working group reviews existing
Foundation programs and policies on a regular basis to evaluate their
performance and effectiveness. The working group collaborates with Project
Leadership and the Board to ensure that all programs are meeting their
diversity and inclusion goals.
Diversity is defined as all the ways people differ from one another
including race, color, religion, gender identity and expression, national
origin, language, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, genetic
information, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual
orientation and other aspects. This includes elements such as personal
background, experiences, education, thinking processes, approaches to
problem solving and experiences. The differences range from subtle nuances
to very clear points of difference – this is the nature of diversity.
Strike-through version
In an effort to assert and facilitate the incorporation of diversity
policies into its overall strategy, the Board of Directors of the OpenStack
OpenInfras Foundation (“Board”) is committed to fostering an inclusive and
welcoming place for all people to collaborate and drive innovation and
design cutting-edge data center capabilities that provide solutions for our
most pressing challenges.
This working group will sponsors and creates programs that encourage
diversity and inclusion by identifying and removing the barriers that keep
us from having a diverse, thriving community. The programs recommended by
this working group will apply to the board of directors, foundation
members, project leaders, contributors, and their associated communities. to
the Board, OpenStack Open Infrastructure Foundation, Technical Committee,
PTLs, Developers and the entire OpenStack Community. Each program will have has
specific success metrics and the working group will provides regular
updates on all programs to the Board as well as the Community.
The diversity working group, like other Board committees, will be is
supervised by the Board who will have has authority to approve its
proposals. The Board may choose to exercise such authority by setting
guidelines for the scope and implementation of such programs. The working
group will reviews existing Foundation programs and policies on a regular
basis to evaluate their performance and effectiveness. The working group
will collaborates with the TC, User committee Project Leadership and the BoDard
to ensure that all programs are meeting their diversity and inclusion
goals.
Diversity is defined as all the ways people differ from one another
including race, color, religion, gender identity and expression, national
origin, language, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, genetic
information, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual
orientation and other aspects. This includes elements such as personal
background, experiences, education, thinking processes, approaches to
problem solving and experiences. The differences range from subtle nuances
to very clear points of difference – this is the nature of diversity.