Welcome!
This is a group for talking and planning ways to make Drupal more diverse. Join us if you want to reach outside the community to grow and include people from a variety of backgrounds, ages, abilities, genders, and more.
Also see some other Other Diversity Movements in Open Source for some ideas and inspiration.
Please do not list job postings! They will be deleted! And your karma will decrement -1.
Let's grow the Drupal community, and literally change the face of open source, by broadening models of success in many communities of different backgrounds, abilities, or genders.
What if we had started this 5 years ago? Imagine where we'd be today, and what a difference it would make to the Drupal community. Let's not wait another minute, let's get started now. Go out there, get active and learn through experience. It's critically urgent we do something now. Drupal needs it, as much as the potential Drupal members need it. This isn't a problem special to Drupal, it's a problem in opensource, and a problem in science, technology, engineering and maths in general.
We need a little less talk and a little more action. Tell us what you're working on, what you'd like to do. Share stories about your community and how you're bringing people into the community.
Drupal and Education Open Space: Call for Participation
Education is increasingly recognised as a major and growing need for the growing Drupal community. During DrupalCons educational BoFs are very common, but we may need more structure to collaborate on the diversity of challenges for education.
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Defining diversity group and next steps
I wanted to come back to what’s already becoming an old theme for this group: what is this group all about? A few thoughts, followed by a proposal to try to create a community funded scholarship to DrupalCon London with the goal of encouraging diversity and inclusive leadership.
Like Jack Aponte said in a brilliant Drupal Voices podcast, talking about the power structure in a community is really important. For me, this group’s conversational function should be to discuss, analyze, and criticize Drupal’s power structure. Should we have a benevolent dictator for life? What are good examples of healthy community practice? What are examples of bad practice? How should this whole core initiative leader thing work, anyway? What are the problems in a “do-ocracy”? How should we pick our leaders? How do we enforce the code of conduct, and what does it mean to violate it? Who does our community privilege, and how are they rewarded?
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IRC is a Major Barrier to Entry
OK, so I have decided, after many years, to start talking about my problems. I am doing this in the hope that the community might understand me a little bit better, why I am the way I am, so to speak, and to reach out to others with similar "problems".
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Drupal books in Libraries - simple and concrete outreach
The proposed group here http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-books-libraries seems like a sensible and concrete way to do outreach.
I suggested the author join this group, so in case it's deleted after that here's the proposed mission:
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Drupal Books in Libraries works to get more Drupal books in local libraries, through fundraising and purchasing books, getting publishers to donate books or from individuals looking to make a contribution for the benefit of their local community.
Should we have job postings in this group?
I say no; they seem spammy and irrelevant. Thoughts? Can we disable the "Create Job" option for the group entirely? Should we delete the job postings that are already up here?
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Diversity group admins
Hiya Greggles (or other g.d.o adminfolk) - was wanting to get some group admins added to http://groups.drupal.org/diversity-outreach-recruitment-project as the one who started the group (Heather) hasn't been able to keep up admin duties (but please keep her as an admin as well as she'll be back at some point). Got her ok here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/143524
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Following up on the Group Name thread: http://groups.drupal.org/node/140299 it seems that it would be great to change the name now, but I'm not sure heather (currently the sole group admin) has been keeping an eye on here much.
I'm going to put in a request to the g.d.o admins add some more group organizers to the list, and also reassign ownership of this group node to someone who is more active on g.d.o so that these sorts of things get taken care of in a more timely manner.
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Aspergers
There are quite a few members in the Drupal community who have Aspergers. We are the eccentric ones that write amazing code but act a bit od. Few of us come out and announce our disability since it could be rather damaging. I decide to speak out because I have nothing to loose by doing so.
Read moreOther Diversity Movements in Open Source
This page is focused on providing a resource to list out other similar non-Drupal movements mostly in open source (but not limited to).
Dreamwidth (Open source blogging software)
- Article on community diversity: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6939/1/
Linux - General
- LinuxChix: http://www.linuxchix.org/
Linux - Ubuntu
- Post on improving diversity at the Ubuntu Dev Summit: http://www.linux.com/distrocentral/distroblogs/401872-improving-diversit...
- Ubuntu Women: http://ubuntu-women.com/
