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I got it.  It looks like the voting will give a reasonable outcome. If it
doesn't we'll have to ignore the results.

Roland

On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 1:12 AM Barrett, Carol L <carol.l.barrett at intel.com>
wrote:
>
> Roland – I hope you saw the notes that Egle sent out from the initial
team meeting and the follow-up Doodle link I sent to identify times for
alternating team meetings that will allow everyone who wants to participate
to join in the meetings. If you didn’t get it, pls let me know and I’ll
forward it.
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Carik
>
>
>
> From: Roland Chan [mailto:roland at aptira.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 3:38 PM
> To: Egle Sigler
> Cc: Foundation at lists.openstack.org
>
>
> Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] First diversity working group notes
>
>
>
> Sorry I couldn't make it. I woke up, turned off my alarm and promptly
fell asleep again.
>
> I notice the only Asian attendees were from Aptira. We're already heavily
invested in OpenStack Foundation workings and Kavit and Tristan are used to
these overnight meetings (and I clearly have some catching up to do)
through their participation in the board, which has similar scheduling.
>
> I wonder how many people simply didn't bother because of the unfriendly
timeslot (4am in Australia, 2am in China).
>
> I must re-iterate my earlier email: timeslots that are convenient for any
single geography are exclusionary. Meetings must be scheduled so that all
regions have a reasonable opportunity to participate and
discussions/decisions at meetings must remain open until a full cycle of
meetings has had a chance to process them.
>
> I'll also re-iterate a point I made at the last board meeting: taking a
poll of people who showed up to something is a really poor way of working
out what the general population want or need. The results will only reflect
the needs of those who are engaged, whereas the point of the diversity
group is to foster engagement from those who may be excluded for some
reason.
>
> Don't make this group an echo chamber.
>
> Good morning!
>
> Roland
>
>
>
> On 20/06/2015 5:11 AM, "Egle Sigler" <ushnishtha at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thank you everyone for attending today's meeting. We had lots of great
discussion, and some concrete action items.
>
>
>
> Etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OpenStackDiversity.1
>
> IRC notes:
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/diversity_working_group/2015/diversity_working_group.2015-06-19-18.00.html
>
>
>
> Notes from etherpad:
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> Info on OpenStack IRC: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/IRC
>
> Web IRC link if you are not using IRC client:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=openstack-meeting
>
> Meetbot quick reference guide:
http://meetbot.debian.net/Manual.html#user-reference
>
>
>
> Next meeting etherpad:
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OpenStackDiversity.2
>
> Minutes:
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/diversity_working_group/2015/diversity_working_group.2015-06-19-18.00.html
>
>
>
>
>
> The initial meeting for this work group will be: Friday, June 19, 2015 at
18:00 UTC, on IRC: #openstack-meeting
>
> The Agenda is:
>
> ·         Introductions
>
> <nikiacosta> Niki Acosta, Cloud Evangelist, Cisco
>
> jfleet> jfleet Cloud304 EST
>
>  <imadsousou> Imad Sousou - Intel
>
>  * kavit Kavit Munshi - Aptira IST
>
>  <rainya> Rainya Mosher, Product Manager, Rackspace
>
>  <ninag> Nina Goradia, IBM, CST
>
>  <ShillaSaebi> OpenStack Operations Engineer, Comcast EDT
>
>  <AlanClark> Alan Clark SUSE
>
>  <eglute> Egle Sigler, Principal Architect at Rackspace CST
>
>  * jbryce works at OpenStack Foundation
>
>  <arcee2> Val Wanjura, Technical Ops Mgr, Rackspace
>
>  <gpruessmann> Gerd Pruessmann, Deutsche Telekom AG
>
>  <lsell> Lauren Sell, OpenStack Foundation
>
>  <electrocucaracha> Victor Morales - Intel
>
>  <cmassey> Claire Massey, OpenStack Foundation CST
>
>  <wznoinsk> Waldemar Znoinski - Intel
>
>  <TamaraJohnston> Tamara Johnston, EMC Global Services - Cloud PST
>
>  <barrett> Carol Barrett, Intel
>
>  <Rockyg> Rocky Grober, Huawei, PDT
>
> <Mauri> Mauri Whalen - Intel
>
> <MeganR>         Megan Rossetti - Comcast, EDT
>
> <vince_> Vince Brunssen - IBM
>
> <amandap> Amanda Plimpton - SwiftStack PT
>
> [13:50:49]  <ozstacker> AEST
>
>
>
> ·         Mission Discussion and definition of Diversity -
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Diversity
>
> Charter discussion: feedback from Vancouver was that the operational
scope was too broad
> Possible Definitions
>
> §  [13:13:47]  <nikiacosta>         diversity - eliminate bias on the
basis of age, race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, sexual
orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, and socioeconomic
status.
>
> §  [13:13:54]  <rainya>         M-W.com: diversity, noun, : the quality
or state of having many different forms, types, ideas, etc. : the state of
having people who are different races or who have different cultures in a
group or organization
>
> §  [13:14:54]  <rainya>         for me diversity is really about getting
a variety of *thought* more than anything; so that any problem has lots of
diferent viewpoints and experiences coloring the outcome; [13:16:04]
<rainya>         and that variety comes from different disciplines
(engineers, devs, qa, ux, ops, product managers) as well as cultural and
gender backgrounds
>
> §  Top areas of focus for diversity: GENDER (male to female ratio);
GEOGRAPHIC (downloads, contribution, and attendance by country; what
countries / regions have low or NO representation?); CULTURE
>
> §  Other areas of future exploration: religion, age, disability
>
>
>
> Discuss proposal to engage a Consultant/Coach to assist this work group
>
> ·         Review proposed work plan, gather feedback, and owners
>
> ·         Next Steps
>
> ·         Meeting Frequency
>
> [13:45:09]  <ozstacker>         And next step is have a meeting that is
12 hours different to this one, and include others before deciding on
_anything_
> [13:48:30]  <barrett>         I wonder if we want to have weekly
meetings, given the interest, and alternate them between US/EMEA-friendly
and APAC/Japan-friendly?
> [13:52:21]  <nikiacosta>         @eglute - hard to meet everyone's needs,
but if we had 3 or 4 people in a core group for geographies who could serve
as delegates, it might make it easier to get stuff done
> [13:52:59]  <eglute>         #action barrett to start 1-2 doodles to find
the best times for us to meet?
>
>
> ·         Interest/Need for alternating times to make the meetings
globally accessible. Moving forward we’ll use the
foundation at lists.openstack.org mail list for work group discussions and
meeting communications.
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