On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 12:03 AM, Emma Irwin eirwin@mozilla.com wrote:

Hi Fedora Diversity Group,

I am so happy to know you exist! Someone in the Fedora women's list suggested I reach out.

My name is Emma, and I work on Diversity and Inclusion at Mozilla. Last year we invested in a lot of research to better understand https://medium.com/mozilla-open-innovation/a-time-for-action-innovating-for-diversity-inclusion-in-open-source-communities-6922fef4675e what we mean by diversity and inclusion, with a number of recommendations coming out of that. Two of those recommendations were to build metrics that matter, https://medium.com/mozilla-open-innovation/reflection-inclusive-organizing-for-open-source-communities-9c44f0b689c1 and to invest in ways of collaborating with other individuals and open projects - to really generate change.

Thanks Emma for reaching out to us. Fedora Diversity group started few years ago and getting smarter each year :)

I took time to read some of the studies you have shared with us in blog form and I am happy to share that Fedora diversity team is also putting efforts in similar direction to build a matrix via survey to dig out the actual problem areas.

To those goals I want to ask *if you would be wiling to share our survey https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/diversity-inclusion-in-open-source-survey/23733 *with your community, and whether anyone representing this group would be available for an interview with our researcher - who is looking into how we might form a collaborative for D&I in open source.

Collaboration is key in Open Source world to progress. We will be happy to share the survey and we will definitely be interested in the survey results (Please let me know if you will be able to share them with Fedora Diversity team to study later).

I am representing Fedora Diversity team for this Fedora Release cycle (for next 6 months) and I can do the interview. At the same time, I will be happy if any of the other active contributor from diversity team want to do it as all of us know most of the things about the subject.

Thanks for your time, and of course happy to take questions or provide more information on our work! 2018 for sure is all about taking our research, and driving real change this year - would love to learn from you as well!

Great. Thanks again for reaching out.

Cheers, Amita

-Emma

-- Emma Irwin Community Development Open Innovation Team

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On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 12:03 AM, Emma Irwin eirwin@mozilla.com wrote:

Last year we invested in a lot of research to better understand what we mean by diversity and inclusion, with a number of recommendations coming out of that. Two of those recommendations were to build metrics that matter, and to invest in ways of collaborating with other individuals and open projects

• to really generate change.

I have plenty of experience in diversity and community matters in multiple free software communities including Ubuntu Women. It is also that true that these days I am not able to devote enough time. I had a look at your blog post. I am pretty aware of the points mentioned.

It is very important to work out low-level models of collaboration, have enough funds in place, be clear about project goals and outcomes monitor people and groups ensure sustainability and work out how the model will withstand the onslaught of market forces.

For example, a number of projects with women groups NGOs working for diversity in India may be possible or even with some educational institutions. Unfortunately, many of the educational institutions in India in particular, are run for purely commercial purposes - the products (students) typically lack interest in the subject proper.

It is also important to look into micro-communities - they differ a lot from what people from urban areas may be thinking about them. There is nothing much about research on them in the blog post.

Purely voluntary efforts cannot sustain themselves apparently (I know :)

Happy 18

Thanks and Best

A Mani

Prof(Miss) A Mani CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS, IEEE HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: https://logicamani.blogspot.in/ sip:girlprofessor@ekiga.net