#185 Restructuring landing page
Merged 3 years ago by jflory7. Opened 3 years ago by ramyaparimi.
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  = Diversity and inclusion in Fedora

  :toc:

  

- The Fedora Project welcomes and encourages participation by everyone.

- Our community is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement, and we work to help each other live up to these principles.

- Please, refer to our xref:project:ROOT:code-of-conduct.adoc[Code of Conduct] for more information.

- The Fedora Diversity and Inclusion team (Fedora D&I team) is committed to fostering diversity and inclusion in the Fedora community.

+ The goal of our team is to encourage diversity and inclusion in the Fedora community.By inclusion, we mean to create a comfortable environment to encourage and empower everyone to be part of the community. 

+ Inclusion is not about just being respectful to each other anymore!  

+ It is to make the community accessible to groups from underpresented, disabled and many other communities. 

+ While the Fedora Project is open to contributions from everyone, our community stands strong on pillars of mutual respect, tolerance and encouragement. 

+ Please checkout our  xref:project:ROOT:code-of-conduct.adoc[code of conduct] for more information.

  

- You can watch our recent video showcasing the Fedora community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1eHRoEps6I[here].

+ To get a sneak peak of the Fedora community, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1eHRoEps6I[Flock to Fedora-2019] that happened at Budapest! 

  

  image::infographic-2020.png[Infographic with statistics about Fedora Women's Day since 2016. Created by Smera Goel.]

  

- 

  [[goals]]

  == Goals

  

- The goal of this initiative is to help foster diversity and inclusion in the Fedora community.

- The Fedora D&I team works towards this goal by focusing on efforts including (but not limited to):

- 

- * Creating content and organizing events to spread awareness about diversity within Fedora and outside the Fedora community.

- * Supporting community building and engagement activities to foster inclusion.

- * Coordinating with Fedora SIGs and subprojects to futher foster diversity and inclusion in the community.

- * Supporting programs committed to building diversity and inclusion in Free and Open Source Software communities.

+ The Fedora D&I team strives to enhance  diversity and inclusion by focusing on some of the efforts mentioned below:

  

  

  [[join]]
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  Calendar information about our upcoming meetings can be found at: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/9784/[here].

  Meeting logs are available at https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/sresults/?group_id=fedora-diversity&type=channel[Meetbot]

  

+ https://fedoraprojectpodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/fedora-diversity-inclusion-team[Fedora Podcast] gives further insight into the purpose, objective and working process of the team.

+ The podcast has interesting conversation between  members of the D&I team and Eduard Lucena (@x3mboy).

  

  [[current-projects]]

  == Current Projects

  

- We are tracking our ongoing work and action items https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issues[here] in Pagure.

+ We track our https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issues[ongoing work and action items] in Pagure.

  

  [[fedora-women]]

  === Fedora Women

  

- Fedora Women aims to foster involvement of women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people in Fedora and Free and Open Source Software.

+ The https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Women[Fedora Women] team is no longer active or maintained. However, as the aims of Fedora Women and Fedora D&I team align with each other, the D&I team has taken up to organize Fedora Women's Day event, that aims to keep the goal of Fedora Women alive!

  

+ Fedora Women aims to nurture the involvement of women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people in Fedora and other Free and Open Source Software projects.

+ In addition, this community aims to bring awareness of contributions by women/non-binary in the Fedora Project. 

+ Regardless of one's gender, Fedora Women welcomes anyone who supports women's involvement in Fedora. 

+ 

+ Join Fedora Women community at IRC Freenode on https://webchat.freenode.net/#fedora-women[#fedora-women] channel.

+ Subscribe to the https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/women.lists.fedoraproject.org/[Fedora Women mailing list] for latest updates.

  

  [[events]]

  === Events
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  If you are interested in working with us to organize events in your local community, {MAILINGLIST}[send us an email].

  We are always looking for new collaborators.

  

+ [[demographic-survey]]

+ == Demographic Survery

  

- [[meetings]]

- == Meetings

+ The xref:demographic-survery.adoc[Demographic Survery] was launched to understand  demographics of the Fedora Community. 

  

- The Diversity and Inclusion team generally meets *bi-weekly* in #fedora-diversity at 14:00 UTC on Thursdays.

- Calendar information about our upcoming meetings can be found at: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/9784/[here].

- Meeting logs are available at https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/sresults/?group_id=fedora-diversity&type=channel[Meetbot]

+ While the D&I Team is no longer actively working on this survey due to data collection and storage concerns (i.e. G.D.P.R.), it is retained for historical purposes. 

+ The team hopes our research and work may be useful for other Open Source communities and Diversity & Inclusion programmes.

  

+ [[get-involved-with-us]]

+ == Get Involed With Us

+  

+ * Are you willing to help us with enhancing diversity and inclusion Fedora community?

+ * Are you part of a local hackerspace, Linux User Group(LUG) or STEM community?

+ * Are you involved in open source project beyond Fedora?

  

- [[get-in-touch]]

- == Get in touch with us

+ If you said YES to one or more points above,then you are at the right place! 

+ Our team always looks forward to working with folks from diverse backgrounds. 

+ We believe everyone can bring value to our goal in one way or the other.

  

- Are you an individual contributor who wants to help us shape diversity and inclusion in the Fedora community?

- Are you a part of a local hackerspace, LUG or STEM community?

- Are you involved in open source project beyond Fedora?

- Did you say YES to any one of these?

- Diversity efforts require that we work with all parts of Fedora.

- We feel that everyone can bring in valuable inputs to this conversation.

- We have diverse and flexible contribution opportunities available for everyone.

+ If you are interested in working with us, please checkout how to xref:get-involved.adoc[get involved with us] to start your journey with our team!

  

- * If you'd like to help out, please introduce yourself on our {MAILINGLIST}[Diversity & Inclusion mailing list].

+ [[meeting-guide]]

+ === Meeting Guide

  

- * You can join the conversation via IRC #fedora-diversity on Freenode.

-   We also have a Telegram bridge to IRC https://t.me/fedoradiversity[here].

+ xref:meetings.adoc[Meetings] of the D&I team are held every other Thursday in https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#fedora-diversity[#fedora-diversity] channel at 14:00 UTC.

+ If you are interested in attending or chairing our meetings, checkout our xref:meetings.adoc[meeting guide] for information.

  

- * We are especially looking for other open source projects and local communities to share resources and collaborate together.

-   Please get in touch via the above mentioned ways or open a new ticket https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issues[here].

+ [[Policy]]

+ == Policy

  

- * Feel like you don't have much time to contribute?

-   Subscribe to our {MAILINGLIST}[Diversity & Inclusion mailing list] to receive updates about our work.

+ We follow lazy approval method! 

+ Checkout xref:decision-process.adoc[policy page] to know more about our decision making process.

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  • edited the heading for communications paragraph
  • edited link for IRC web chat
  • added link to channel in Matrix
  • restructured landing page
  • tried to fix xref links

Metadata Update from @jflory7:
- Pull-request tagged with: improvement, type - docs
- Request assigned

3 years ago

Thanks @ramyaparimi! :tada: Since we already approved this in #181, I am going to go ahead and merge this. Thanks for your patience on the git troubles!

Let's see this go to production. :sunglasses: It should be live in 1-2 hours after merging.

Pull-Request has been merged by jflory7

3 years ago