Some of the feedback which I have shared on mailing list as well from this year is ::
The diversity panel was indeed really successful, it initiated a lot of discussions and uncovered many issues people are facing. There were at least 6-7 people , who came to me and discussed about the problems. People felt that the timing was so less for the panel, so same sub-set of people came to attend my talk on women in open source and the discussion continued there.
Panel timings were really less, people wanted to talk more and some people took little longer time than required to speak. Suggested Solutions - Moderator should pitch in and interrupt when required People should be given 2 mins to talk at any given point of time. Panel timings should be more than an hour.
There are other diverse areas to be focused on other than women-men, which are unfortunately more deeply rooted in Fedora and causing pain for many :: Like Technical and non-technical, RedHatters and non-Redhatters, Old Contributors - New Comers, Full time fedora contributors as their first job And volunteers contributors etc etc
Great! Since this goes along with the topics on ticket #11 please make sure to add the link there so people can follow the Diversity Panel planing.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Diversity_Events updated in this page.
Okay, it's taken me too long to do this, but here's some of my feedback from the panel. I'm also +1 to all of @amsharma's observations, I noticed the same things she brought up too.
Here's a quick overview of some of the things that I think we nailed and did well.
Also, @marinaz++ @lailah++ @jonatoni++ @riecatnor++ @mattdm++ @bee2502++ @amsharma++ for all paneling. :smile: (Also, all of you are welcome to provide your own feedback here too while it's still sort-of fresh!)
To sum up this bit, I overall felt positive about how the panel ended. I think we established this as something that can be a regular part of future Flocks.
This list may be a little long, but it's out of love and deep appreciation to help build an even better panel next year. :wink:
This is a big read @jflory7 :grinning: But all points are awesome. I really like the Implementation suggestions here.
That will be great if we can decide on next year's panel during FAD.
Discussed in in 2016-09-14 meeting.
When we originally created this ticket, the target objective was for next year's Flock. But @a2batic had the idea of helping organize a diversity panel at FUDCon APAC this year. If we can take some of the lessons learned from the Flock and begin planning for this now, we can still have a strong panel at FUDCon and begin establishing this as a common thing in regional events as well.
There is FUDCon LATAM too, which @tatica is much more local to, but I'm not sure if organizing two panels in two different sides of the world less than a month apart from each other is something we want to do right now. But I wanted to mention the idea anyways. :)
Marina and many others provided a lot of feedback on the panel, and there's also some other comments in the ticket above. Some of these ideas were…
Some of the feedback I heard, which agrees with some of the feedback already mentioned, is that there were too many panelists, and still, because of a lot of audience participation, people didn't get to hear a lot from some of the panelists. One of the suggestions that was made was to have a BoF instead of a panel if the main goal is to have a community discussion and planning session.
If there is interest in putting together another panel, I would suggest limiting it to 4-5 participants, and also carefully considering whether there needs to be anyone participating remotely. Perhaps remote participation should be limited to people who can't travel because of a disability or for another reason that prevents them from coming to any Fedora event in the foreseeable future. Having @tatica as a remote participant might also make sense to allow community members to get to know her.
Panelists should be invited well ahead of time, have a chance to prepare to discuss specific topics that the panel will focus on, and be the ones to carry the discussion during the session. I recommend watching the diversity panel from All Things Open for an example of a focused panel discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQrkgyArV5k
Just wanted to share the link from the mailing list in the ticket as well, but @devyani7 and @a2batic have started on the FUDCon abstract at this Etherpad.
I think having a live stream and remote participants would really help with disabled people getting more invovled. Same for those who are care givers and cannot travel.
If possible, having a live text stream of discussions would also be ideal for people who are deaf or those with autism who might feel over stimulated with a lot of speaking.
This can be done with a chat room or using some live text stream technology like reddit live: https://www.reddit.com/r/live/wiki/index
It would require a few people to be available who can type up the text as discussion is happening.
Do we want to work on the Diversity Panel again for the next flock. I would like to open a new ticket or edit this one to plan all the activities diversity team wants to perform in next flock.
Some of them can be - 1. Hackathon or Workshop - Like FAD, we can work on some of the selective items/pagure tickets of diversity. 2. Presentation/talk - This can be done to showcase the diversity work, progress, a retro etc. 3. Panel - We can work on the last year's feedback and can prepare for diversity panel beforehand.
@amsharma Thanks for bringing this up. I was thinking the same.
We can create a new ticket and link it here. This will help us in future to keep track of all FLOCK related discussions by Diversity team.
For upcoming FLOCK , I want to suggest two sessions -
Talk with an Open Floor in the end on the work Diversity team has been doing in the past, what we are currently working on and our strategy for the upcoming year. I think this will be a bit similar to Council report in #17 but I feel that having this discussion at FLOCK is important to creating awareness about Diversity team and our work. Also, we can get valuable inputs from the community and help onboard newcomers.
A 1.5- 2 hr long session on specific issues important to Diversity team's goals in upcoming year. It could be a BoF like @marinaz suggested or a workshop-cum-Panel/ open table discussion depending on what goals we want to achieve in the upcoming year. I think this would be a discussion for the new ticket relevant to upcoming years' FLOCK once we are done with the report for the Council.
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For all Flock planning consideration, until we have more official information, I found this mailing list thread to be a valuable reference point.
Since the Diversity WG is one of the smaller initiatives in the Project, I see value in having a talk to introduce the Diversity Team, our goals, what we're doing, and what's on the horizon (more or less a refresh of the forthcoming Council report in #17 ). However, at Flock, we should aim to answer these questions:
I think this is strongly dependent on what we learn about how Flock is organized this year, but from the same email thread linked above, I think a FAD-style workshop on one of the days could be an effective way for us to maximize our time together at Flock to make significant strides on a select number of issues (one or two) that would benefit by having us in the same room, especially with others whose input we might not normally have.
The first goals I would consider for workshop planning is picking priority tasks that we believe would benefit from:
I am +1 for -
Core team members in the same room Participation from non-members who might have a lot of input on specific topics
AND, We for sure would like to invite people who are interested and would like to help them onborad. Like we did in last flock successfully for bee and Jona. In this case, this gonna help what Bee suggested -
Another suggestion is holding a Women in Fedora Dinner/Lunch at FLOCK. If FLOCK doesn't have budget for this, we can use some of our budget here.
Related links, which also talk about why such events are important :
https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2015/WomensDinner http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america/attend/women-attendees
Another suggestion is holding a Women in Fedora Dinner/Lunch at FLOCK. If FLOCK doesn't have budget for this, we can use some of our budget here. Dinner will be good idea? As lunch will be given by the conference. We should pick a dinner night, pre-conferance if this can be sponsored one. Related links, which also talk about why such events are important : https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2015/WomensDinner http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america/attend/women-attendees
+1 for the pre-conferance dinner. If we want to do it, we need to - 1. Come up with agenda, talk points. 2. Need to sync with flock organizing team to get the list of female candidates joining. 3. Look after the budget part and venue.
It's time to talk about this topic at our next meeting, because FLOCK is really near and we should plan in advance what activities (panel or workshop etc) we want to organize.
Now that we know the status of the Diversity work session at Flock this year (and that we won't be doing a panel), do we want to close this ticket and focus the discussion in #27 towards our work session?
Metadata Update from @jflory7: - Issue set to the milestone: None (was: Fedora 26)
yes, That is correct. Closing this one for now. Thanks for bringing it up.
Metadata Update from @amsharma: - Issue close_status updated to: Complete
Metadata Update from @jflory7: - Issue untagged with: meeting, needs feedback - Issue set to the milestone: Fedora 27 (to Nov. 2017)
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