Create a mission statement to capture the goals, priorities, and areas of focus of Fedora D&I Team
While reviewing #181 with changes to the D&I docs landing page, @meskarune shared thoughtful feedback to better capture the purpose and goals of our team. Drafting a mission statement that captures our past, present, and future work is helpful to build context and help newcomers understand our goals, focuses, and priorities.
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It would be really nice to see more specifics on what sort of diversity you are focusing on and what "inclusive" means. Like is the focus on a diversity of life experience or under represented groups in free software or historically marginalized groups? To me, being inclusive means everyone feels comfortable and empowered to participate and contribute. This means not only a respectful community but also one that is accessible for the disabled, has multiple avenues for communication to account for different styles and has people's privacy and safety a high priority. If Fedora has any pages on a user privacy policy that should be linked. Maybe you can state the problem you are trying to address with the goals too. Something like, "The Fedora community stands on strong pillars of mutual respect, tolerance and encouragement, however this is not enough to increase the participation of socially marginalized groups in the Fedora community. To do this, Fedora is taking an active role to encourage more diverse participation by..." A lot of people don't understand the purpose of diversity initiatives because they think just being kind to others is good enough. I think a tiny bit of explaination can help with getting people to understand why having education and active involvement is important. If possible maybe we could get some newbie people to have a look here and see if their questions get answered.
It would be really nice to see more specifics on what sort of diversity you are focusing on and what "inclusive" means.
Like is the focus on a diversity of life experience or under represented groups in free software or historically marginalized groups?
To me, being inclusive means everyone feels comfortable and empowered to participate and contribute. This means not only a respectful community but also one that is accessible for the disabled, has multiple avenues for communication to account for different styles and has people's privacy and safety a high priority. If Fedora has any pages on a user privacy policy that should be linked.
Maybe you can state the problem you are trying to address with the goals too. Something like,
"The Fedora community stands on strong pillars of mutual respect, tolerance and encouragement, however this is not enough to increase the participation of socially marginalized groups in the Fedora community. To do this, Fedora is taking an active role to encourage more diverse participation by..."
A lot of people don't understand the purpose of diversity initiatives because they think just being kind to others is good enough. I think a tiny bit of explaination can help with getting people to understand why having education and active involvement is important.
If possible maybe we could get some newbie people to have a look here and see if their questions get answered.
I propose drafting a new mission statement to capture our work and tie it into a high-level purpose or set of goals. I believe this will make it easier to justify decision-making on what our team does, does not do, or would like to do.
This could exist as a new page in our documentation site, and would be prominently featured on the team landing page.
Discussed in 2022-04-25 team meeting.
We agreed this was highly relevant given our recent scoping exercises to focus our work. I'd also suggest adding a team vision statement as a good complement to this now.
Discussed in 2022-12-05 video meeting.
I flagged this in today's meeting as something we can focus back on. Going into 2023, it will be a good opportunity for us to refocus and narrow our goals down in the DEI Team. An updated vision and mission statement fits into this as a "guiding light" for how we prioritize our work as a team.
One idea shared by @rikardgn was about documenting our long-term goals for accessibility in Fedora, given that we are hoping to bring the DEI Team and Accessibility WG closer together in 2023.
Migrated to gitlab.com:fedora/home#17.
@jonatoni and I reviewed this ticket while going through @rwright's HackMD pad with all of our Pagure tickets. This ticket is definitely still relevant, and might be a good first task for us to pick back up as the DEI Team reconvenes after a long pause.
I am closing this Pagure issue as moved so we can continue the conversation on the GitLab issue.
moved
Metadata Update from @jflory7: - Issue close_status updated to: moved - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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