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Motivated by the observations at the summit, community members along with Hyperledger Staff began discussing how to improve the inclusiveness and in turn increase diversity. They wanted DCI initiatives to be community driven, and tracked openly. The DCI WG was created to give interested community members an open forum to investigate, collaborate on solutions, and provide visibility to the DCI issues found in the community. The charter for the DCI WG includes collecting data on various metrics, suggesting possible improvements based on those metrics to the TSC or projects, and if actions are taken, measure measuring the impact of them.
Diversity, Civility and Inclusiveness can cover many different community health issues. In order to be the most impactful, the DCI WG decided to focus our efforts and tackle a subset of issues first. One of our first goals will be to collect metrics across as much of that breadth as we reasonably can. We plan to launch a survey in the near future to help baseline the current community. Without that data it is difficult to know where we need to place our emphasis. One of the small pieces of data we do have today suggests a gap in gender representation (only men self-nominated for the last Technical Steering Committee). After much discussion the working group has chosen to make that an initial focus and use what we learn through that process and the upcoming survey to expand into other aspects of DCI.
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