2020 04 29

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Time

• 10 AM pacific on April 29, 2020

Dial-in info

• https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community.backup

Attendees

Announcement

• None this week

Discussion

• Guest Speaker: Swarna Podila
• (Remaining Agenda deferred to next session)
  • Action Item Review
    • Survey Analysis
  • Pride Month
    • Met with Marketing committee about joint work for June
      • MC has DCI Editorial Theme for June
      • Requested member companies come back to next MC call with their June campaigns and how we can collaborate.
      • Suggested providing HL DCI logo etc. for member campaigns and cross promoting
  • Monthly speaker series
    • Let's get monthly speakers which will help grow participation and stimulate ideas for other actions this committee can take.
    • Recruit from
      • member companies
      • prominent industry individuals
    • Promote through HL channels / social etc.

Recording

dciwg_call_april29_2020.m4a

Minutes and Action Items

• Cloud Foundry Background
  • 5 years under LF; 10 years total
  • DCI not organizationally addressed but shared responsibility among foundation staff (~5) and community (~30k)
• Inclusivity best practices
  • Docs are a common first landing point, make sure these are accurate and accessible
  • Tagging issues as "good first issue"
  • Is the code readable for a new contributor?
• Working groups
  • Diminished over time - similar experience with HL
  • Remaining 2 SIGs:
    • Integrations (cloud foundry using k8s)
    • Operators
  • Marketing Working Group
• Annual Summits (1 in N.A.; 1 in EU)
  • Foundation hosted
    • Program committee from community who votes on program co-chairs
      • Foundation gives DCI guidance to community on breadth of topics (beginner to advanced) and speaker diversity (all aspects of diversity including company affiliation).
      • Show rather than tell: Best practice is not to introduce a speaker by their diverse characteristics
    • Diversity talks: 

      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wp8Bu_FfiY&list=PLhuMOCWn4P9ivmL2suycVIg-ySW_Vw4Rl&index=49&t=0s

      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwOZVlVoA5I&list=PLhuMOCWn4P9ivmL2suycVIg-ySW_Vw4Rl&index=115&t=0s

    • Diversity Luncheons have been successful and growing over time:
      • Cloud Foundry EU Summit 2019 Diversity Luncheon
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmQFIr7R-aE&feature=youtu.be
    • Community Awards ← (This looks like a good tool for HL to adopt)
      • Different categories each year
        • e.g. Top contributor, voice of X, community named category
        • Best end user story
        • Best at welcoming new community / inclusive approach / etc.
• Measurement
  • Abandoned surveys because of poor response rate. This echos HL experience so far ... ~10% response rate.
  • Instead using: 
    • https://cloudfoundry.biterg.io/
    • Covers some stats like company diversity but not general demographics
  • Event demographics are easier to track because of registration
• Misc:
  • Help be aware of language ...
    • ("guys" vs. "people" or "folks"). 
    • "easy" - nothing is easy or obvious to new contributors
  • https://textio.com/ is a tool to help check for biased language ..
    • often used for job postings
    • includes a gender bias meter