Remember that diversity is also extremely important on a purely practical level - it's not just a hippy moralistic crusade.
We want to make a product that is as attractive and welcoming to its diverse user base as possible. As such, it's important to have a comparably diverse developers team to help avoid the accidental biases that can creep in... i.e., stuff that is fun, or utterly irrelevant to a straight, white male, but might make a user from a different demographic feel unwelcome.
Some examples of easy, inclusive things we can do, that hopefully won't cause too much rage to Bro-flakes:
* Have a "community month" on our Social media - ask for people to share their artwork celebrating human diversity, and prominently advertise our pages on how to contribute to the project.
* Use the best quality submissions to make the gallery on our project website more representative.
* Have the next About Page competition along the same theme - prompt people to share the competition brief among Social Media community groups representing wider diversity.
* Be proactive about accessibility issues: put out a call to users to report their main issues with the UI. There are probably hundreds of tiny, easily-fixable issues that we haven't noticed, that make Inkscape harder for users with visual/mobility/learning difficulties to use.
* Similarly - have a translations drive. There are many very committed translators, but we can still do better.
In principle, I'm happy with the Outreachy idea - obviously, it would need some careful assessment of our budget.
AV
On 21 October 2017 at 20:25, Robert Sterbal <rsterbal@...714...> wrote:
Some suggestions:
Recommend the facebook page and group to get people more active.
Let them know that the Vectors can always use help.
Identify other successful non profit organizations and ask them how they increased diversity.
Measure the diversity now, and every 3 month hereafter.
Thanks,
Robert Sterbal robert@...3541... 412-977-3526 call/text
On 10/21/2017 11:41 AM, Marc Jeanmougin wrote:
Hi,
This subject has been discussed at the two hackfests of 2016 and 2017. The fact that we want to strive for a more inclusive and diverse community is not up for debate.
This is not just about code, but about development: we need to keep an open and welcoming environment to attract new contributors, and diversity helps a lot to build a healthy community.
This discussion is not about *whether* but *how* to build a more diverse/inclusive community. I mention this program for comments because it was mentioned at the summit, but if you know of similar initiatives, please share them.
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