Suggestions about OpenStack Diversity?
OpenStack Community, The Board has been discussing how to encourage diversity (all types from gender and region to commercial and technical) and also work to improve transparency of Board processes. If you have ideas for us to consider, please feel free to reply to this thread. If you think that we're doing OK (or not) on this, please let us know that too. Thanks, -- Rob ____________________________ Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522 I am in CENTRAL (-6) time http://robhirschfeld.com twitter: @zehicle, github: cloudedge & ravolt
First up the board should set some goals. Create a diversity or inclusion policy with specific measureable objectives. Then it is possible to have a meaningful discussion about what to do. One starting point would be to have the foundation regularly or continuously report on itself (board and staff at a minimum. Reporting on the membership would be great but perhaps only partially achievable). That at least would demonstrate transparency and make it fairly clear whether there is a problem with the diversity of the foundation. It may also provide a mechanism for tracking progress towards the goals, whatever they may be. Roland OpenStack Community, The Board has been discussing how to encourage diversity (all types from gender and region to commercial and technical) and also work to improve transparency of Board processes. If you have ideas for us to consider, please feel free to reply to this thread. If you think that we're doing OK (or not) on this, please let us know that too. Thanks, -- Rob ____________________________ Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522 I am in CENTRAL (-6) time http://robhirschfeld.com twitter: @zehicle, github: cloudedge & ravolt _______________________________________________ Foundation mailing list Foundation@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
Thanks. On 03/28/2015 07:11 PM, Roland Chan wrote:
Create a diversity or inclusion policy with specific measureable objectives.
What type of objectives would you suggest?
One starting point would be to have the foundation regularly or continuously report on itself (board and staff at a minimum.
We create these (Jonathan gives a report twice a year and Alan produces one annually). Perhaps the issue is distribution.
Create a diversity or inclusion policy with specific measureable objectives.
What type of objectives would you suggest?
The Foundation should represent its members in some way. Without wanting to presuppose the outcome of a member satisfaction survey, metrics that showed the correlation or lack thereof between the makeup of the members and the makeup of the organisation that serves them may point towards a goal. Or not if the membership is happy with the job that is being done. Typical goals include: - increasing diversity of the board - increasing the diversity of senior management - increasing the diversity of the workforce to a level that improves on the current situation. I'm presupposing here that the Foundation actually supports the concept of diversity as strength. The very first goal should be to write and publish this commitment. A quick google didn't find anything. Basically: requirements (commitment to diversity), design (setting some goals), execution (holding people accountable for reaching those goals).
One starting point would be to have the foundation regularly or continuously report on itself (board and staff at a minimum.
We create these (Jonathan gives a report twice a year and Alan produces one annually). Perhaps the issue is distribution.
Maybe. It should be on the website somewhere fairly prominent, and may as well be generated from live data if possible. There are plenty of examples of how the wider tech industry does this. Usually with circular graphs. Roland
We can do some level of analysis against stackalytics currently but it's pretty fuzzy logic. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Roland Chan <roland@aptira.com> wrote:
Create a diversity or inclusion policy with specific measureable objectives.
What type of objectives would you suggest?
The Foundation should represent its members in some way. Without wanting to presuppose the outcome of a member satisfaction survey, metrics that showed the correlation or lack thereof between the makeup of the members and the makeup of the organisation that serves them may point towards a goal. Or not if the membership is happy with the job that is being done.
Typical goals include:
- increasing diversity of the board - increasing the diversity of senior management - increasing the diversity of the workforce
to a level that improves on the current situation.
I'm presupposing here that the Foundation actually supports the concept of diversity as strength. The very first goal should be to write and publish this commitment. A quick google didn't find anything.
Basically: requirements (commitment to diversity), design (setting some goals), execution (holding people accountable for reaching those goals).
One starting point would be to have the foundation regularly or continuously report on itself (board and staff at a minimum.
We create these (Jonathan gives a report twice a year and Alan produces one annually). Perhaps the issue is distribution.
Maybe. It should be on the website somewhere fairly prominent, and may as well be generated from live data if possible. There are plenty of examples of how the wider tech industry does this. Usually with circular graphs.
Roland
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The membership DB has gender, location and dietary preference/allergy information. It should be trivial to get that data into the open and quite easy to display it on the website on an ongoing basis. Roland On 31/03/2015 8:58 AM, "matt" <matt@nycresistor.com> wrote:
We can do some level of analysis against stackalytics currently but it's pretty fuzzy logic.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Roland Chan <roland@aptira.com> wrote:
Create a diversity or inclusion policy with specific measureable objectives.
What type of objectives would you suggest?
The Foundation should represent its members in some way. Without wanting to presuppose the outcome of a member satisfaction survey, metrics that showed the correlation or lack thereof between the makeup of the members and the makeup of the organisation that serves them may point towards a goal. Or not if the membership is happy with the job that is being done.
Typical goals include:
- increasing diversity of the board - increasing the diversity of senior management - increasing the diversity of the workforce
to a level that improves on the current situation.
I'm presupposing here that the Foundation actually supports the concept of diversity as strength. The very first goal should be to write and publish this commitment. A quick google didn't find anything.
Basically: requirements (commitment to diversity), design (setting some goals), execution (holding people accountable for reaching those goals).
One starting point would be to have the foundation regularly or continuously report on itself (board and staff at a minimum.
We create these (Jonathan gives a report twice a year and Alan produces one annually). Perhaps the issue is distribution.
Maybe. It should be on the website somewhere fairly prominent, and may as well be generated from live data if possible. There are plenty of examples of how the wider tech industry does this. Usually with circular graphs.
Roland
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Assuming it's correct. I tend to identify as sql injection every chance I get. But we should provide data anonymization upon request. -matt On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Roland Chan <roland@aptira.com> wrote:
The membership DB has gender, location and dietary preference/allergy information. It should be trivial to get that data into the open and quite easy to display it on the website on an ongoing basis.
Roland On 31/03/2015 8:58 AM, "matt" <matt@nycresistor.com> wrote:
We can do some level of analysis against stackalytics currently but it's pretty fuzzy logic.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Roland Chan <roland@aptira.com> wrote:
Create a diversity or inclusion policy with specific measureable objectives.
What type of objectives would you suggest?
The Foundation should represent its members in some way. Without wanting to presuppose the outcome of a member satisfaction survey, metrics that showed the correlation or lack thereof between the makeup of the members and the makeup of the organisation that serves them may point towards a goal. Or not if the membership is happy with the job that is being done.
Typical goals include:
- increasing diversity of the board - increasing the diversity of senior management - increasing the diversity of the workforce
to a level that improves on the current situation.
I'm presupposing here that the Foundation actually supports the concept of diversity as strength. The very first goal should be to write and publish this commitment. A quick google didn't find anything.
Basically: requirements (commitment to diversity), design (setting some goals), execution (holding people accountable for reaching those goals).
One starting point would be to have the foundation regularly or continuously report on itself (board and staff at a minimum.
We create these (Jonathan gives a report twice a year and Alan produces one annually). Perhaps the issue is distribution.
Maybe. It should be on the website somewhere fairly prominent, and may as well be generated from live data if possible. There are plenty of examples of how the wider tech industry does this. Usually with circular graphs.
Roland
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I would be interested in a breakdown by geography especially. Travel support for poorly balanced countries for example. Some trends would also be useful to understand the impact of summits at different locations. Tim Sent from my phone -------- Original message -------- From: matt <matt@nycresistor.com> Date: 31/03/2015 00:50 (GMT+01:00) To: Roland Chan <roland@aptira.com> Cc: "Foundation@lists.openstack.org" <foundation@lists.openstack.org>, foundation-board@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Suggestions about OpenStack Diversity? Assuming it's correct. I tend to identify as sql injection every chance I get. But we should provide data anonymization upon request. -matt On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Roland Chan <roland@aptira.com<mailto:roland@aptira.com>> wrote: The membership DB has gender, location and dietary preference/allergy information. It should be trivial to get that data into the open and quite easy to display it on the website on an ongoing basis. Roland On 31/03/2015 8:58 AM, "matt" <matt@nycresistor.com<mailto:matt@nycresistor.com>> wrote: We can do some level of analysis against stackalytics currently but it's pretty fuzzy logic. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Roland Chan <roland@aptira.com<mailto:roland@aptira.com>> wrote:
Create a diversity or inclusion policy with specific measureable objectives.
What type of objectives would you suggest?
The Foundation should represent its members in some way. Without wanting to presuppose the outcome of a member satisfaction survey, metrics that showed the correlation or lack thereof between the makeup of the members and the makeup of the organisation that serves them may point towards a goal. Or not if the membership is happy with the job that is being done. Typical goals include: - increasing diversity of the board - increasing the diversity of senior management - increasing the diversity of the workforce to a level that improves on the current situation. I'm presupposing here that the Foundation actually supports the concept of diversity as strength. The very first goal should be to write and publish this commitment. A quick google didn't find anything. Basically: requirements (commitment to diversity), design (setting some goals), execution (holding people accountable for reaching those goals).
One starting point would be to have the foundation regularly or continuously report on itself (board and staff at a minimum.
We create these (Jonathan gives a report twice a year and Alan produces one annually). Perhaps the issue is distribution.
Maybe. It should be on the website somewhere fairly prominent, and may as well be generated from live data if possible. There are plenty of examples of how the wider tech industry does this. Usually with circular graphs. Roland _______________________________________________ Foundation mailing list Foundation@lists.openstack.org<mailto:Foundation@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
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