12:35:21 #startmeeting Diversity 12:35:21 Meeting started Thu Mar 10 12:35:21 2016 UTC. The chair is tatica. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 12:35:21 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 12:35:21 The meeting name has been set to 'diversity' 12:35:32 I'm looking forward to the kids cartoons. My first is on it's way in July :) (I've actually been stockpiling my favourites from when I was a kid in anticipation) 12:35:35 yeah, I'm new to this bot 12:35:44 mattdm: mr. mcfeely - would not work today lol 12:35:54 hello all and welcome to the first Diversity meeting! 12:35:56 :) 12:35:59 masetrax: aw congrats!! 12:36:01 hi! 12:36:14 hi! 12:36:21 .hello duffy 12:36:22 mizmo: duffy 'Máirín Duffy' 12:36:29 Thanks Mizmo :) And hello everyone! First diversity meeting and first meeting I've taken part in, woop woop 12:36:36 lets do a quick rollcall 12:36:36 #topic rollcall 12:36:36 .fas tatica 12:36:37 tatica: gusthwolf 'Gustavo Adolfo Soto Marquez' - tatica 'Maria Gracia Leandro Lombardo' 12:36:40 congratulations masetrax. kids' tv is but one benefit :) 12:36:59 .hello mattdm 12:37:01 mattdm: mattdm 'Matthew Miller' 12:37:09 .hello marina 12:37:10 marina: marina 'marina ycovleva' 12:37:15 Thanks mattdm! I can't wait! 12:37:19 that's not me... 12:37:22 .hello masetrax 12:37:24 masetrax: masetrax 'None' 12:37:59 marina: do .hello 12:38:07 .hello marinaz 12:38:08 marina: marinaz 'Marina Zhurakhinskaya' 12:38:19 oh, that's better 12:38:27 :) 12:38:32 :) 12:38:41 are we all in? 12:38:48 .hello ocorey84 12:38:49 linuxmodder: Sorry, but you don't exist 12:38:53 .hello corey84 12:38:56 linuxmodder: corey84 'Corey Sheldon' 12:38:57 seems that my internet is really awful, but we will try to make the most 12:39:16 it happens :) 12:39:44 ok, so it's more an informative meeting, lets start with the feedback 12:39:50 #topic Survey 12:40:17 one of the things I would like to push is a survey to understand how diverse our community is 12:40:30 we "think" we know, but something people like is to see numbers 12:40:43 tatica, semi topical -- seen the mailing list thread from Jona? 12:40:44 * mattdm likes numbers 12:40:52 and I know I won't be running on this position forever, so I want to prepare the path for the next Advisor 12:40:52 regarding yesterday's famsco 12:41:12 linuxmodder, I've been packing, so reading logs has been a bit slow for me 12:41:17 * masetrax likes numbers...and pretty graphical representations of said numbers 12:41:24 you are young why not hold the position tatica :) 12:41:25 linuxmodder, please, if you can make a small input about it 12:41:37 linuxmodder, because if I've learn something, is that everyone deserves a chance 12:41:40 :) 12:42:16 now there's something I wanted to know 12:42:47 TL:DR is that Jona thought the comment about Albanian comm not being real was a massive buz kill and was not able to see the clarification from Remy 12:42:48 linuxmodder: can you give a link to the thread? 12:42:59 mizmo, tatica one sec 12:43:15 linuxmodder: this seems like an important but separate topic.... 12:45:04 I have the link ready but I want to hear what tatica was saying about the survey 12:46:16 mizmo, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/75CZDPFHBVCNWMN26BKNR3YNU2ADA33A/ 12:46:40 and back :( 12:46:42 #link https://paste.fedoraproject.org/336662/61393414/ 12:46:50 that link has some of the questions we might do (or we though about) 12:46:53 mattdm, tatica so what kinda numbers kinda like bee2502's recent article ? 12:46:56 let me put that on a etherpad 12:48:01 * mattdm reads the questions 12:48:03 tatica: for gender we might want a fluid option too 12:48:38 not sure about relevancy of married/single q 12:48:45 mizmo, yup, let me put it on the etherpad so everyone can put their thoughs 12:48:52 okie :) 12:48:53 tatica, L36 question meaning as a member of LGBT or supporter?/ 12:49:17 mizmo, like a pangender ? or more like asexual 12:49:34 tatica: it's best to run the gender options by someone transgender - my understanding is that it's important for transgender people to identify as a person of the gender they identify is in the first place 12:49:42 https://v.etherpad.org/p/Diversity_Survey 12:49:43 linuxmodder: genderfluid is the term i've heard.... not sure what pangender is. not asexual, more like, it shifts depending on context 12:49:47 mizmo, could go toward a family | entreprise 12:49:48 to make it equivalent, it should be something like 12:49:54 #link https://v.etherpad.org/p/Diversity_Survey 12:49:57 Female (cis) 12:49:58 that is pangender 12:50:03 linuxmodder: ahh okay 12:50:11 Female (transgender) 12:50:15 Male (cis) 12:50:25 Male (transgender) 12:50:31 like marina said cis gender identities are often overly known as pangenders 12:50:48 marina: the problem with 'cis' as a term is a lot of folks who'd need to select those options are unfamiliar with the terminology. so we should probably define it in the question itself or have a rollover or something on the term to explain it 12:50:51 a total subset of gender id 12:50:51 and also having Genderqueer option, like mizmo said 12:51:28 I'd refrain from genderqueer naming tho 12:51:43 sensitivities and all 12:51:54 in spanish it's more simple, yet I'm open to include as many options as needed 12:52:08 we had to do some research and we talked to people with these identities for coming up with eligibility for Outreachy https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy#Eligibility 12:52:22 i wonder if it'd be better to ask simply, male / female / fluid, then in a separate question ask cis or trans (if male or female is picked) 12:52:49 mizmo, maybe, the survey I just linked has been already cleaned up by decause and mattdm 12:52:50 because then, for the transgender folks who prefer to identify with their gender, they won't feel like an exception or something 12:52:58 mizmo : yes, it's a good idea to include the definition; alternatively, it can be a separate question whether someone is a trans person 12:53:12 marina: ++ im thinking separate question might be better 12:53:33 e.g. they would select a gender as Female and then check that they also are a transgender person 12:53:39 exactly 12:53:43 I would tend to agree with separate question based on initial answer 12:53:43 mizmo: agreed 12:54:08 I like that 12:55:29 I have a few other comments about specific questions, but I also am wondering about logistics of the survey overall 12:55:48 This is intended to be community/contributor survey, right? 12:56:07 mizmo: my understanding is that fluid is different from genderqueer - genderqueer is more of an overarching term, and genderfluid and genderfree are subsets of it 12:56:28 marina: yeh i see that from the outreachy language - what i did is basically copy how outreachy presented it 12:56:31 (in the etherpad) 12:56:41 How do we a) get it to the community while b) making sure it's not distorted by non-contributors and c) keeping anonymity? 12:56:43 we ended up with the following for Outreachy after many iterations: "identify as a woman (cis or trans), trans man, or genderqueer person (including genderfluid or genderfree)" 12:57:43 we don't ask about disability status in the survey... it might be good to know for example if we have blind users/contributors (i know of at least one) 12:57:59 yisus, am I still online? 12:57:59 mattdm, sure, go ahead 12:58:02 marina, i might follow your example and research a bit more about gender identity for that particular question 12:58:03 mattdm: if we're interested in contributor community could require fas login 12:58:04 mizmo +1 12:58:11 for Single Married, maybe it makes sense to add In a Relationship or Living with a Partner 12:58:12 mattdm, yes, contributor survey 12:58:14 mizmo: good idea 12:58:43 mizmo: do you think we could do that in a way which makes people assured of their anonymity, though? 12:58:55 that's a non-rhetorical question -- I think it falls in your expertise :) 12:59:09 so the idea was to allow only FAS members to fill it 12:59:10 that way only contributors information will be gather 12:59:10 marina, I like that one about relationship 12:59:10 Would the results be skewed by those who do have an FAS but do not actively contribute? And that does not bode well for anonymity 12:59:30 internet has been great all these days... except today... now... lucky me! 12:59:32 .hello decause 12:59:33 decause: decause 'Remy DeCausemaker' 12:59:36 mizmo: good idea about asking about disability; we should also ask about veteran status 12:59:58 masetrax: I'm less worried about than than about the survey getting posted to some agenda-ridden channel on Reddit 12:59:59 masetrax, survey must be fully anonimous 13:00:10 mattdm: well, in that we're open, we could say - we do not record fas id along with responses.... and then we could make the responses public and people could see clearly fas id isn't being recorded (could also link to the source of the survey to show it isn't recorded) 13:00:14 the FAs entry would only be to filter people who is not a Fedora member 13:00:18 marina: +1 13:00:30 race and ethnicity question needs to be worked on further - e.g. someone can be Black, but nit African American 13:00:35 marina, are you from US? 13:00:56 I don't see that Veteran is a worldwide interest 13:01:06 tatica: I'm, but I'm thinking the survey needs to work for people internationally 13:01:24 only US cares for Veterans to be honest 13:01:38 and be disable due war or others shouldn't matter, I think 13:01:38 etherpad link? 13:01:45 linuxmodder, https://v.etherpad.org/p/Diversity_Survey 13:01:57 on language, I would specificially like "Is English your first language?" and "Do you feel completely comfortable interacting in English?", in addition to listing languages. 13:02:30 tatica: i think veteran status is considered in other countries too 13:02:44 altho i guess wording should be careful to apply to countries where service is mandatory (eg israel) 13:03:03 mattdm, true, survey should be in some other languages than _en 13:03:13 tatica: U.S. caring about veterans is still significant, and we might learn things about people from other countries too; it's as significant as finding out about race and ethnicity of U.S. contributors 13:03:24 mizmo, I could check, yet, I can assure you is not a thing in LATAM 13:05:27 http://wvf-fmac.org/new/ 13:05:33 The WVF was established in Paris, France in 1950. The founding members were veteran organizations from 8 countries namely, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Turkey, USA and Yugoslavia. Its original name was “The International Federation of War Veterans Organisation”. 13:06:22 lets leave that open 13:06:22 I just don't want to get another article about "turning Fedora less white-US-male" 13:06:23 and remember, there are always 2 sides of a coin 13:06:24 proud of US army is only one side of it 13:06:25 so I would avoid adding anything related to any country in particular 13:06:26 but that's only my opinion, if that seems really reelevant, then should be on 13:06:35 etherpad is hating me today keep disconnecting 13:07:06 why is length of time on a current job a space to fill in and the unemployed time has options 13:07:10 they should be the same 13:07:12 if we make the survey the same way we make websites, we can translate with zanata 13:07:33 also there needs to be a question whether someone is a student (in which case they should not select unemployed) 13:07:44 this process is still fresh on my mind from budget site 13:08:57 marina: +1 for student option 13:09:31 And possibly multiple selections regarding employment? For example I am both a student and working full-time 13:09:55 masetrax: and a baby on the way -- wow :) 13:10:07 for disabilities, maybe adding "mobility" would make sense 13:10:58 mattdm: and a burgeoning interest in contributing to Fedora - the days are going to fly by ;) 13:11:23 hope I didn't miss much :/ 13:11:24 masetrax++ 13:12:01 tatica_: what was the last thing you saw? I can paste you a scrollback via pm 13:12:59 is chronic / long-term illness a disability? 13:13:31 can be in some countries / people's mind 13:13:54 like a cancer or long term spinal issue form a crash for ex. 13:13:58 exactly 13:13:59 mizmo: I don't know about an official definition, but it can make sense to ask about it 13:14:31 Has everyone be able to add their ideas to the etherpad? 13:14:32 tatica: U.S. caring about veterans is still significant, and we might learn things about people from other countries too; it's as significant as finding out about race and ethnicity of U.S. contributors 13:14:32 that 13:14:33 and... seems I'm offline again 13:14:54 We should focus on things which are applicable to a) diversity of perspective and b) relevance to Fedora participation and use 13:15:11 Chronic illness probably fits both 13:15:12 I've a friend who I can ask about dissabilities, she runs a local foundation to teach IT to people with diverse dissabilities 13:15:13 will expand on that a bit more 13:15:45 tatica: pasted the scrollback to you 13:16:00 marina, you're an angel 13:16:14 tatica: hehe 13:16:16 tatica, here in US (my area at least) it applies due ot ADA regualtions 13:16:33 adding the note for the dual options on the student-worker option 13:17:15 tatica: is there a reason you prefer "Living with somebody" to "Living with a partner"? 13:17:33 marina, not at all, please feel free to correct me 13:17:41 tatica: ok 13:17:42 marina, its not always partners ( college dorm style for example) 13:18:11 or purely platonic arrangements ( share rent and nothing more) 13:18:17 linuxmodder: right, but we are here asking about relationship status - unless we want "living with parents" 13:18:19 :))) 13:18:26 that's a relationship! 13:18:29 :) 13:18:33 ah yeah makes sense 13:18:35 tatica: definitely :) 13:19:00 im wondering why the relationship status / living arrangement status is being considered here (honest q, i don't get it) 13:19:21 lgbtqa 13:19:25 I just want to make a note that... is now that I want to know everything about our contributors life, but it might help us understand not only the diversity, but also the available time to contribute, the drop off rate, the longevity rate, the dificulties some of them might experience and deal with, etc 13:19:42 mizmo: I think it's because there is a stereotype that open source contributors are young single guys 13:19:49 mizmo, some people drop off the community after engaging a relationship due lack of time 13:20:05 marina, and that too, numbers 13:20:32 ah okay 13:20:36 same with the jobs 13:20:40 same with students 13:20:48 without the real numbers, we are just guessing 13:20:50 which gets me thinking, I wonder if we should include a question about how many hours a week someone contributes to Fedora on average and whether they are being paid to contribute 13:20:50 i'm worried a bit about implications, asking if they are married then asking if they have kids (but not sure if there's any way around that) 13:20:53 I've gtg everyone, will checking minutes and mailing list to see what I'll miss. Adious :) 13:21:21 I would like all questions to be optional, none mandatory 13:21:28 people should answer what they feel comfortable to 13:21:29 bye masetrax! thanks for joining! 13:21:47 for example, someone would be comfortable talking about their time contributing and job, but not about their personal life 13:21:51 or quite the oposite 13:22:06 maybe a good idea then to cluster the q's into categories 13:22:25 probably we could gather them by group: Would you like to answer some questions related to your personal life? some other about your job? about your time contributing? 13:22:44 tatica: for the race and ethnicity choices, many are America-centered now 13:22:46 re: droppoffs make sense so we can try to tailor efforts to retain those folks even if its something like a weekly 'office hours' similar to decause 's 'hack sessions' for commops 13:22:51 yeh exactly tatica 13:23:08 tatica: should I try to make them more generic? 13:23:34 tatica: the problem is, I'm familiar with the U.S. options, but not with international ones 13:23:37 a general disclaimer above the more probing ones should be fine 13:24:01 for Outreachy, in the U.S,, we made it open to Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander 13:24:02 marina, feel free to add anything you thing it's important, we then can have another meeting to generalize those who need it 13:24:13 something like: the following question(s) are purely OPTIONAL, however help us tailor efforts for time strapped contributors" 13:24:30 probably we could even make the survey by continent, if that makes us understand our people better 13:24:45 we should make it clear that ALL of the questions are optional, if someone is uncomfortable with any one of them 13:24:57 for example, we could do an US section, or a LATAM section, an APAC, etc for things that affect those regions particularly 13:25:01 linuxmodder: I think all these questions are optional - you could have the same arguments about what we are trying to achieve asking for someone's gender as asking for anything else in the survey 13:25:03 mattdm, aye 13:25:26 not sure about the continental shift totally but maybe a segway link for more regionally topical questions like would " " be something you'd hep with | be interested in 13:26:03 one of the reasons I want to discuss the survey is that, even if I'm part of some minorities, there is NO WAY someone can know about every single one of thems 13:26:22 so a general input is not just necessary, but mandatory (if we want to do things right) 13:26:33 once we decide on content, using the same process as fedora-websites to build the pages can give us the benefits of git and zanata and branding. 13:26:36 everyone should feel included in this survey if we want to succeed 13:26:37 two suggestions: 13:27:07 - in survey design, when you're trying to reach a really diverse set of folks and aren't sure you're providing all the right options, it can be a very good practice to leave an open comment field available for each question for survey goers to clarify anything 13:27:19 I'm interested in helping in this aspect 13:27:30 mizmo: agreed 13:27:31 - we'll probably want to 'QA' the survey with at least a couple folks from each major geo to make sure we didn't miss anything or get anything wrong before sending it out 13:27:59 (similarly, we should follow marina's suggestion of running the language of questions by the folks it impacts, eg asking someone transgender about those q's) 13:28:11 mizmo: +1 13:28:12 mizmo, sounds perfect! 13:28:15 mizmo, +1 13:28:21 +1 13:28:55 you could even run a very limited population survey representative across groups with the open form fields then go thru the open form feedback before doing a full run 13:29:10 yup 13:29:25 maybe we could start with only active FAS members, then open it to include inactive 13:29:42 mizmo: commblog post, badges for betabtesting, etc 13:30:32 decause +1 13:30:59 here is the big FLOSS survey that was done in 2013 http://floss2013.libresoft.es/FLOSSSurvey2013_en.pdf 13:31:19 it's a good idea to look through it to see what questions they asked 13:31:40 downloading 13:31:52 mizmo, tatica mind if I run it by one such person I know 13:32:08 re: marina 's suggest^ 13:32:17 linuxmodder, sure! 13:32:40 here are their results: http://floss2013.libresoft.es/results.en.html 13:33:24 nice 13:33:31 "Work online with the data" option lets you query the data in various ways 13:33:46 when she gets back to me will advise tatica 13:33:53 perfect! 13:33:59 people, time's up, would you like to meet here same tame/day again next week? 13:34:07 does anyone has problems with the day/time? 13:34:34 its early, but it doesnt conflict 13:34:39 this works fine for me, at least as long as school is in session. once school is out, I will be sleeping at the start of this :) 13:34:52 lol 13:34:56 tatica: for employment vs. unemployment - do you prefer number of years for both or age ranges? 13:35:10 I think that with one, top two more weeks we can have everything ready 13:35:25 any objections to me reaching out to websites team to get started on survey.fp.o? 13:35:41 this time works for me - we should encourage more Europeans to join though if we are meeting that early ;) 13:35:46 marina, probably years, since we can later take the age ranges with their age group 13:35:56 decause, not at all! 13:36:09 yeap, that's one of the reasons I selected this time 13:36:29 everyone around the globe "should" be up (including APAC, getting ready to bed, but still up) 13:36:40 #action decause start survey.fp.o conversation with robyduck and websites team 13:37:14 mizmo, are you ok with this time for meetings? it collides with design 13:37:26 tatica: yeh it's an issue :( 13:37:45 probably we can move it to wed instead? same time? 13:37:47 hello everyone.. excuse the late comer 13:37:52 I can volunteer for QA 13:38:09 wed still wfm 13:38:14 tatica: ok - it seems unrelated to age group - the advantage of filling in is that we have an exact number and the advantage of ranges, is that it makes it easier for us to summarize it 13:38:14 Amita, great! welcom on board 13:38:20 amita++ 13:38:21 decause: Karma for amita changed to 1 (for the f23 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 13:38:27 missed the day / time post 13:38:38 linuxmodder, wed/12:30UTC 13:38:46 tatica, :) 13:38:47 this coming ? 13:38:59 aka same time and channel kind athing? 13:39:01 regular 13:39:09 ly 13:39:09 tatica: wed works 13:39:15 if so yeah wfm 13:39:18 wed is even better for me - thursday is a longer day for me 13:39:31 linuxmodder, aye 13:39:40 perfect, then next wednesday at 12:30UTC 13:39:48 decause, tatica we will be informed about the website on ML? 13:39:48 hi Amita! 13:39:52 hello mailga 13:40:03 wed and thurs am are good for me fyi evenings both days (mondays as well) are crap for me 13:40:07 anyone wants to add something else before ending it? 13:40:09 hello marina congratulations dear for so many things happening around you :) 13:40:24 thanks Amita :) 13:40:31 we will be informed about the website on ML? 13:40:38 loved your family pictures from the holiday party :) 13:40:42 Amita, sure! 13:40:49 fwiw thiursday is better than wednesday for me, but whatever :) 13:40:54 for testing, I would need staging environment access 13:41:12 marina, :) 13:41:22 Amita, yeap, once we have all the info gathered, decause will be already working with the website team to pull something together for testing 13:41:34 amita: will ask in #fedora-websites first, then post to lists: commops and diversity (other suggested lists?) 13:41:38 tatica, SUre 13:41:55 decause, cool 13:42:17 * Amita reading logs 13:42:24 tatica++ 13:42:27 sub to websites and commops if you havent yet 13:42:35 decause: I'm not sure if people helping with the web stuff would see the questions, but we should make sure they know these questions are not final 13:43:00 decause, I think I am there 13:43:02 itll be survey.stg.fp.o first 13:43:04 ambassadors too decause 13:43:27 for inclusion at events and LUGs et 13:43:32 decause, yeah stage should be passed than move to prod 13:43:34 marina: will put big disclaimer at the top too :) 13:43:44 amita: agreed 13:44:12 decause, what if any special access is needed for stg.fp.o 13:44:38 I can never seem to get to batcave01 or bastion sucessfully 13:44:44 join websites team, access to repo to run/test locally 13:44:47 decause: could you put some test questions in instead like Question 1 Option 1 Option 2 Other: Please Specify 13:44:54 then push to repos 13:45:11 we dont muck around on server, we deploy 13:45:54 marina: yes, we'll test with mocked up options until real content 13:46:12 decause: awesome! thanks! 13:46:16 np 13:46:32 ok, time to end the meeting 13:46:56 please, feel free to use this channel for any upcomming plans to increase and spead our community diversity :) 13:46:59 #endmeeting