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 While doing this we noticed that the charter was out of date, mentioning the OpenStack Foundation, just the OpenStack community, etc.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.