XSF Discussion - 2019-02-08


  1. pep.

    Re diversity issues, DuckDuckGo has published the following article (sorry about medium): https://medium.com/@girldevelopit/the-women-of-duckduckgo-79df7fbce746, which is nice. I don't think we even have resources to do that (numbers), and maybe it's not appropriate for the XSF, not sure

  2. Guus

    pep. although the article is nice, it doesn't really specify what DDG did to attract these women (or other minorities) - or am I missing something?

  3. Guus

    I don't see how I can use this text to distill "to-do" items for us, other than not be a bad apple.

  4. pep.

    hmm, yeah it doesn't indeed. It just says "Hey look, we are diverse!"

  5. Guus

    "we have four women who kinda stumbled into our office" 😉

  6. pep.

    hehe

  7. Guus

    I'm sure I'm selling them short, but that's the gist of the article 🙂

  8. pep.

    True

  9. pep. continues the search

  10. Guus

    although it's specifically mentioned that some are very privacy-minded (well, DDG, that's a given), so maybe we should see if we can get that one that referenced IRC to switch over from IRC to XMPP. 🙂

  11. Guus

    although it's specifically mentioned that some are very OSS and privacy-minded (well, DDG, that's a given), so maybe we should see if we can get that one that referenced IRC to switch over from IRC to XMPP. 🙂

  12. dwd

    It'd be much easier to foster diversity if we had any.

  13. pep.

    bootstraping issues?

  14. goffi

    we have some.

  15. goffi

    not at the summit, but in larger XMPP community, definitely we have some diversity

  16. goffi

    maybe it would be nice to have a way to know people using XMPP outside Europe/US, and see if events can be organised. It would probably help involvment.

  17. pep.

    Can we issue a statement or something, "We care about diversity, and we would like to help start something in the community to encourage it"

  18. Zash

    Talk to Outreachy?

  19. pep.

    Zash: yeah that could be an idea

  20. bowlofeggs

    I mentored an outreachy intern a couple years ago

  21. bowlofeggs

    It was great

  22. bowlofeggs

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