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At Hyperledger, "All are welcome here!" That is a message that we want all current and prospective open source contributors to hear. As open source software (OSS) becomes more prominent, the communities that surround it become more important. Having a community that has a culture of encouraging people to voice their diverse opinions is crucial for the long term success of the project. With the motivation of creating an ecosystem that enables many diverse views, the Hyperledger community with the support of the Hyperledger staff has started the Diversity, Civility and Inclusion (DCI) Working Group (WG).
The journey to creating this WG started at the Hyperledger Member Summit in 2018 in Montreal. Hyperledger is the fastest growing project in the Linux Foundation's history. Despite that, discussions at the Montreal event raised issues about obstacles to participation. Current processes could make it difficult for newcomers to integrate and participate and some of the processes do not always promote inclusiveness. Newcomers do not always know where to go to find information or ask questions and conversely active members have difficulty monitoring all the avenues people can participate, e.g. mailing lists, channels on rocket chat, wiki. Geography sometimes also presents a barrier as meetings and correspondence are optimized for certain time zones over others.
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