Hi Niharika,
Welcome to the D&I Team mailing list! So glad to see that you are
interested.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 3:01 PM Niharika Shrivastava <
chunnushrivastava(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
I'm Niharika Shrivastava and I am extremely willing to help shape Fedora's
D&I vision.
1. I was an Outreachy intern in 2019 with Fedora Modularity: You can
check out my work here
<
https://github.com/fedora-modularity/ModulemdTranslationHelpers>.
2. I then became a GCI mentor for Modularity (fun fact: Fedora had the
highest number of contributions this GCI)
3. I held my first FWD event at my university: You can check it out
here <
https://orionstar25.github.io/fwd-19/>. (I had also
submitted this blog post for the Fedora Community Magazine but I think it
either got rejected / still under review / lost.)
4. I gave 2 two talks at Flock 19: Talk 1: here
<
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T48sow7Ve4c&list=PL0x39xti0_64C75dRUu...;,
Talk 2: here
<
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn2Cn6_vCxE&list=PL0x39xti0_64C75dRUu...
(Only
the 1st half was recorded :()
5. I have organized various other events centring around D&I at my
university. I will graduate this year and I want to expand Fedora's reach
at my new workplace (hopefully, a LOT more places) as well as help
create/polish new events.
You are already off to a great start in D&I Team by helping organize
Fedora
Women's Day :) Most of us usually hang out in the #fedora-diversity
IRC or Telegram group. We hope to see you there!
As a newcomer to Fedora's D&I resources (
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/diversity-inclusion/get-involved/),
I found certain things unclear:
1. Is there any place which shows current statistics about the
diversity situation in Fedora? A simple counter/percentage for
underrepresentation can help us gauge our goals (e.g. aspire to have a
50:50 ratio by 20xx).
CommOps has a script to get community members by geographical region &
countries. While we do always strive to improve the representation of
underrepresented groups in our community, we don't have other
diversity-focused metrics currently as we don't collect any demographic
data from our community members.
1. I feel the resources aim at people who want to directly help with
the D&I cause (i.e, mentor, hold outreach events and campaigns, collaborate
across teams). But there are no "go-to" resources if someone wants to
indirectly help the cause (maybe because they're not up to taking
leadership roles yet) like (but not limited to):
1. Participate in Outreachy.
2. Participate in ongoing FWD events across the world.
3. Want to create content for the D&I team (e.g. posters,
documentation, revamp websites) solely for exposure and learning purposes.
The D&I team docs are not really updated at the moment. If you could open
a
ticket and propose to add this to docs (along with other edits you see
fit), I think it would be a very valuable contribution! The Make Your First
Steps
<
http://docs.horsefunerals.co.uk/en-US/diversity-inclusion/contribute/join...
section seems like a good fit to me for 2,3. Regarding 1, I feel it should
be a separate section in our docs where we talk about our participation in
program, previous Fedora Outreachy interns and their experience i.e.
CommBlog posts. Some of the content for this can be sourced from here.
<
http://docs.horsefunerals.co.uk/en-US/docs/>
1. I couldn't find much about previous FWD events except on the Pagure
issues page. But I feel that since FWD has been a success over the years,
there should be a dedicated page mentioning all the past held FWDs, and
scheduled FWDs (this can also help 2.2) along with contact information of
their organizers. This way its easier to collaborate for the organizers
across countries for ideas --- will make a separate ticket for this.
A list of previous FWDs sounds like a great idea! You can also add
published event
reports from some of the previous FWDs.Ideally, you would
want to update it here
<
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/diversity-inclusion/fedora-womens-da...
and link it to the FWD section in D&I events page
<
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/diversity-inclusion/fedora-womens-da...
1. The website talks about bi-weekly scheduled meeting but the
calendar is empty (is this expected?).
Due to different time schedules of members and the global pandemic, it has
been
difficult to find someone to organize and chair the meetings. Would
you be interested in chairing them? Another option to discuss any issues
or questions is to just post them on Telegram or IRC as most of us are
active there and will reply.
1. I felt the "*Welcome to the "Fedora Diversity & Inclusion Team"
mailing list*" email was unclear on what kind of adjustments were
being talked about. (I'm sorry for nitpicking but I felt it could be
phrased a little better). 🙈
Are you talking about Self
<
http://docs.horsefunerals.co.uk/en-US/diversity-inclusion/contribute/join...
- Introduction section in our team docs
<
http://docs.horsefunerals.co.uk/en-US/diversity-inclusion/contribute/join...
or something else? We can discuss this further in the channel if you want.
Having said that, I would love to help out in solving all of these issues
(may take a while but I'm excited to volunteer). I apologize if
this isn't
the right place to raise these queries.
Glad to see you are interested. Looking forward to the new tickets :) If
you have any questions, just post it in the channel.
Best,
Bee
Thanking you,
Niharika S.
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