+1

Sounds like a really good idea, maybe would be a good idea to post about it on Fedora Magazine or a fitting Fedora blog

+1, this is great

For reference, here is the badges ticket: https://pagure.io/fedora-badges/issue/789

We looked at this in the D&I meeting today and thought it would be nice to put out a community blog post once the badge gets published. I am going to see if I can find someone to work on the artwork, and hopefully we can get this moving :)

Thanks @till !

Tagged this ticket as an outreach ticket and also added as a good first issue.

The badge is now live. It would be great to write a short (less than 300 words) CommBlog article to promote the course, explain what it is, and why we are recommending it for the Fedora Community. And of course mentioning that it comes with a badge. :sunglasses:

Here's a draft I created during the last 15 minutes of my previous $DAYJOB session.

With open-source communities being organized collections of folks who contribute to a project and have a shared interest, one of the important cultures to create within the community is inclusiveness. Not only is it important for the outcomes of the projects worked upon by these communities to be accessible to everyone, but participation and empowerment of all people throughout its making are just as necessary.

In Fedora Project, one of our foundations is all about being a strong and caring community - we believe that there is a place in the community for everyone, irrespective of which walk of life you are from or how good your technical skills are. This makes us instrumental in building an environment where everyone feels comfortable, encouraged and empowered to be a part of a friendly community.

To further emphasise such a culture, our Diversity and Inclusion Team wants to promote training for community inclusiveness called "Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation" by The Linux Foundation which everyone (regardless of being part of the community or not) can avail of free-of-cost! On completion of the training, the trainees are awarded a shiny badge to mark their amazing achievement.

This training is entirely online, self-paced and consists of 2 hours of content elaborating on the facts about diversity in technology, its importance for innovation and how biases can be recognized and avoided. With that, the trainees are also skilled up to appreciate people from different race, ethnicities, genders, abilities and other identity categories, while promoting diversity in FOSS communities.

So what are you waiting for? Head over to this link to get started with learning more about community inclusiveness https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/inclusive-open-source-community-orientation-lfc102/ and get yourself a shiny badge on its completion. For more information, feel free to reach out to our Diversity and Inclusion Team and we would be happy to assist you.

309 words, 2001 characters. Do we have an issue ticket about it in the commops? (or are we supposed to?)

Let me know how it sounds @riecatnor @jflory7 @bittin @till.

Thank you for the draft.

Here's a draft I created during the last 15 minutes of my previous $DAYJOB session.

With open-source communities being organized collections of folks who contribute to a project and have a shared interest, one of the important cultures to create within the community is inclusiveness. Not only is it important for the outcomes of the projects worked upon by these communities to be accessible to everyone, but participation and empowerment of all people throughout its making are just as necessary.

The next paragraph gives are more tailored view to this from the Fedora perspective, therefore I suggest to start with the next one and remove the first paragraph.

In Fedora Project, one of our foundations is all about being a strong and caring community - we believe that there is a place in the community for everyone, irrespective of which walk of life you are from or how good your technical skills are. This makes us instrumental in building an environment where everyone feels comfortable, encouraged and empowered to be a part of a friendly community.

To further emphasise such a culture, our Diversity and Inclusion Team wants to promote training for community inclusiveness called "Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation" by The Linux Foundation which everyone (regardless of being part of the community or not) can avail of free-of-cost! On completion of the training, the trainees are awarded a shiny badge to mark their amazing achievement.

Instead of writing that the D&I team would like to promote it, this text should promote it. As in commercial advertisements, they would not tell "Company X would like to promote product Z" but write something engaging that highlights the benefit. I guess this could be a good practical exercise to use the technique from the story telling workshop. :-)

This training is entirely online, self-paced and consists of 2 hours of content elaborating on the facts about diversity in technology, its importance for innovation and how biases can be recognized and avoided. With that, the trainees are also skilled up to appreciate people from different race, ethnicities, genders, abilities and other identity categories, while promoting diversity in FOSS communities.

So what are you waiting for? Head over to this link to get started with learning more about community inclusiveness https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/inclusive-open-source-community-orientation-lfc102/ and get yourself a shiny badge on its completion. For more information, feel free to reach out to our Diversity and Inclusion Team and we would be happy to assist you.

The training states to avoid the "you" pronoun but I failed yet to understand why.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Instead of writing that the D&I team would like to promote it, this text should promote it. As in commercial advertisements, they would not tell "Company X would like to promote product Z" but write something engaging that highlights the benefit. I guess this could be a good practical exercise to use the technique from the story telling workshop. :-)

Makes sense. I could imagine how disinterested I'd be if television commercials were like that. :stuck_out_tongue: Also, I have switched to "encourages" but refrained from overtly emphasising its benefits as it has already been adequately. With that, I minimised the use of pronouns here (not just "you" but some more as well I think).

Here's a revised draft.

In Fedora Project, one of our foundations is all about being a strong and caring community - we believe that there is a place in the community for everyone, irrespective of which walk of life you are from or how good your technical skills are. This makes us instrumental in building an environment where everyone feels comfortable, encouraged and empowered to be a part of a friendly community.

To further emphasise such a culture, the Diversity and Inclusion Team encourages undergoing training for community inclusiveness called "Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation" by The Linux Foundation which everyone (regardless of being part of the community or not) can avail of free-of-cost! On completion of the training, the trainees are awarded a shiny badge to mark their amazing achievement.

This training is entirely online, self-paced and consists of 2 hours of content elaborating on the facts about diversity in technology, its importance for innovation and how biases can be recognized and avoided. With that, the trainees are also skilled up to appreciate people from different race, ethnicities, genders, abilities and other identity categories, while promoting diversity in FOSS communities.

Wait no more! Head over to this link to get started with learning more about community inclusiveness https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/inclusive-open-source-community-orientation-lfc102/ and obtain a shiny badge on its completion. For more information and assistance, feel free to reach out to our Diversity and Inclusion Team.

I seem to have missed out on the workshop you mentioned about. Gotta mark my calendar with bold letters, should the workshop happen again. :smile:

Hey @t0xic0der, this is a great draft. Thanks for working on it. I made some changes here and there for better flow.

One of our four foundations in The Fedora Project is "Friends" — which enables us to have a strong and caring community. We welcome anyone with diverse skills and backgrounds, which helps us build an environment for everyone to feel inspired and empowered.

To further emphasize such culture, the Diversity and Inclusion Team encourages everyone to take a training for community inclusiveness, offered by The Linux Foundation: "Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation". Upon completing this free course, a badge is awarded by both The Linux Foundation and The Fedora Community (is this the right term? Im not sure if its The Fedora Project or Community)

This is a two hour online and self-paced course, elaborating on the facts about diversity in technology, its importance for innovation and how biases can be recognized and avoided. The take away from this course is an abundant knowledge and skills to promote inclusivity, diversity and equality in open source communities

Now, don't forget to collect your badge from The Fedora Project by commenting in this issue after the training! For more information, reach out to the Diversity and Inclusion Team.

I have completed the training today;) It was great!

Discussed in 2022-04-25 team meeting.

The training is promoted in the docs now:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/diversity-inclusion/resources/resources/

It is a bit hidden but this may change as part of the work for #194. Closing this ticket as complete.