diversity Digest, Vol 4, Issue 5

Sat Jul 4 02:33:55 UTC 2015

Having a formal role description is preferable as it helps set the level of
expectation for anyone, wether it is,a volunteering or paid position. It
also create boundaries and healthy relationship between teams.
In my role as the IBM chair for our diversity council it was more like a
passion that was ignited by our purpose of humanity aligned with our
conpany's goals.
Thoughts?

Tsegga Siyoum Medhin
On Jul 3, 2015 8:00 AM, <diversity-request at lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 12:59:07 -0500
> From: Spencer Hunley <spencer.hunley at gmail.com>
> To: diversity at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: First complaint
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> I disagree. Just because it's an unpaid volunteer position doesn't mean
> expectations should be low. Diversity is a problem in the tech world in
> general, and despite recent efforts, is still one in the Linux community -
> regardless of distribution.
> Bringing someone on board for this position who would be ineffective,
> unfamiliar with the duties of the role, and unable to meet the requirements
> listed would make the role irrelevant and hamper efforts to increase
> diversity and equality to the community.
> By pushing such formality, it gets rid of the cruft - those who would
> merely use the position as a title, those who would use the position for
> their own gain, etc. - and sets a tone of professional understanding,
> putting anyone who applies on notice that there is serious efforts behind
> the creation of this opening.
>
> I know it limits prospects; I am aware that it might be confusing. But
> anyone who is confused may not be familiar with Fedora, and that lack of
> understanding and knowledge would be a problem The Diversity Advisor would
> be working with very sensitive, sometimes hot-button issues with a wide
> variety of people whose sexual orientations, racial/cultural backgrounds,
> abilities/disabilities, self-identification, etc. must be respected and
> recognized in a professional manner. Fedora needs someone who can do that,
> and hopefully someone who has proven that as well.
>
> My apologies for the rant - TL;DR I think the professional look and process
> is definitely worth it, and will lead to better candidates and a more
> progressive and diverse community, and could hopefully be a template for
> other distributions and companies as well.
>
> - Spencer
>
>
> Spencer Hunley <http://about.me/spencerhunley>
> (816) 866-0847
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:37 PM, María Leandro <tatica at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
>
> > As I mention at some of the meetings I went when talking about the role,
> >  creating a position with so much formality is why people will consider
> it
> > a job, when it's clearly not. Don't want to say that formality is bad,
> just
> > that it's out of scope to post a job description for what is just a
> > communitary roll.
> >
> > Do we have a job description for FAmSCo, FESCo or the Board? Sometimes,
> > keeping things simple can be less confusing.
> >
> > Easy way to go with is just to appoint someone and start working, and in
> a
> > year or two make an election to select someone else or go with the same
> > person again. Posting formal request like this create hiring expectations
> > between the community members.
> >
> >
> > 2015-07-02 11:43 GMT-04:30 Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com>:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 07/02/2015 11:45 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
> >>
> >>> I would underscore that this is a position on the Fedora Council, which
> >>> is part of Fedora community governance.
> >>>
> >>> Reliance on volunteering or unpaid work is one of the reasons there are
> >>> fewer people from minority backgrounds, who have less leisure time, in
> open
> >>> source, so I wouldn't offer the value of volunteering as an
> explanation in
> >>> this context.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The argument implicitly being posed here, whether intended by anyone
> >> involved or not, is this:
> >>
> >> Is it better to have no role at all than an unpaid one?
> >>
> >> Those are the two options right now.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ~m
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > tatica
> > Maria Gracia Leandro
> > http://www.tatica.org
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> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:38:54 -0430
> From: María Leandro <tatica at fedoraproject.org>
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> I didn't said expectations to be low, at all... I just said that other
> groups such as FAmSCo and FESCo don't require such formality and yet, the
> job is done and with high quality.
>
> We already have people who work with those groups, they are called
> "Ambassadors". What should be seek is someone who can bring those groups
> together and make them coexist with their differences without starting a
> flame.
>
> 2015-07-02 13:29 GMT-04:30 Spencer Hunley <spencer.hunley at gmail.com>:
>
> > I disagree. Just because it's an unpaid volunteer position doesn't mean
> > expectations should be low. Diversity is a problem in the tech world in
> > general, and despite recent efforts, is still one in the Linux community
> -
> > regardless of distribution.
> > Bringing someone on board for this position who would be ineffective,
> > unfamiliar with the duties of the role, and unable to meet the
> requirements
> > listed would make the role irrelevant and hamper efforts to increase
> > diversity and equality to the community.
> > By pushing such formality, it gets rid of the cruft - those who would
> > merely use the position as a title, those who would use the position for
> > their own gain, etc. - and sets a tone of professional understanding,
> > putting anyone who applies on notice that there is serious efforts behind
> > the creation of this opening.
> >
> > I know it limits prospects; I am aware that it might be confusing. But
> > anyone who is confused may not be familiar with Fedora, and that lack of
> > understanding and knowledge would be a problem The Diversity Advisor
> would
> > be working with very sensitive, sometimes hot-button issues with a wide
> > variety of people whose sexual orientations, racial/cultural backgrounds,
> > abilities/disabilities, self-identification, etc. must be respected and
> > recognized in a professional manner. Fedora needs someone who can do
> that,
> > and hopefully someone who has proven that as well.
> >
> > My apologies for the rant - TL;DR I think the professional look and
> > process is definitely worth it, and will lead to better candidates and a
> > more progressive and diverse community, and could hopefully be a template
> > for other distributions and companies as well.
> >
> > - Spencer
> >
> >
> > Spencer Hunley <http://about.me/spencerhunley>
> > (816) 866-0847
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:37 PM, María Leandro <tatica at fedoraproject.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> As I mention at some of the meetings I went when talking about the role,
> >>  creating a position with so much formality is why people will consider
> it
> >> a job, when it's clearly not. Don't want to say that formality is bad,
> just
> >> that it's out of scope to post a job description for what is just a
> >> communitary roll.
> >>
> >> Do we have a job description for FAmSCo, FESCo or the Board? Sometimes,
> >> keeping things simple can be less confusing.
> >>
> >> Easy way to go with is just to appoint someone and start working, and in
> >> a year or two make an election to select someone else or go with the
> same
> >> person again. Posting formal request like this create hiring
> expectations
> >> between the community members.
> >>
> >>
> >> 2015-07-02 11:43 GMT-04:30 Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com>:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 07/02/2015 11:45 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I would underscore that this is a position on the Fedora Council,
> which
> >>>> is part of Fedora community governance.
> >>>>
> >>>> Reliance on volunteering or unpaid work is one of the reasons there
> are
> >>>> fewer people from minority backgrounds, who have less leisure time,
> in open
> >>>> source, so I wouldn't offer the value of volunteering as an
> explanation in
> >>>> this context.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> The argument implicitly being posed here, whether intended by anyone
> >>> involved or not, is this:
> >>>
> >>> Is it better to have no role at all than an unpaid one?
> >>>
> >>> Those are the two options right now.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ~m
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> diversity mailing list
> >>> diversity at lists.fedoraproject.org
> >>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/diversity
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> tatica
> >> Maria Gracia Leandro
> >> http://www.tatica.org
> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:tatica
> >> LinuxUser= 440285  GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> diversity mailing list
> >> diversity at lists.fedoraproject.org
> >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/diversity
> >>
> >>
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