On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
As you've seen (and been part of!), the historical process has been to allocate everything to Ambassadors in the regions, so this is new. I'd also like to see the Ambassadors consider diversity as important in regional spending, not something that needs to be funded separately and centrally. If that's not working, we can and should plan for a separate diversity budget for FY18. (We'll be working at that at Flock.)
Even if all ambassadors are trained in practical aspects of diversity, understanding and playing an active role in policy implementations will be difficult for them
In India, for example, there is much diversity in discrimination.
The most visible would be caste based discrimination (this results in segregation, denial of resources and services). Even in universities in cities it matters.
Would a college student from STEM be able to handle related diversity issues?
Not really expected of them.
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