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DEI leadership post #267

Closed jnywong closed 2 months ago

jnywong commented 2 months ago

Blog post to acknowledge the gender gap in the current leadership team and our intentions to address it in the future.

haroldcampbell commented 2 months ago

Thank you for the draft @jnywong! @choldgraf may I invite you to add/update?

choldgraf commented 2 months ago

This is a super important topic to me, and the post is an excellent start @jnywong - thank you for putting it together!

I agree w/ @jnywong's point that it's important for my voice to come through here as well. How about I take a pass at the post today (or if I run out of time, this weekend) to provide some historical context of how we've tried to improve diversity within the org, and also to provide an idea for how these issues align with our goals of growing our organizational maturity and resilience over the next 3 years.

If that sounds safe to try, I'll try to add my thoughts to the post ASAP, and invite @jnywong to give feedback/edits/etc to make sure they align with her ideas as well. Jenny would you be willing to be a co-author with me on this post?

aprilmj commented 2 months ago

The historical and future context would give this post even more meaning @choldgraf. Go for it!

I hope @jnywong is done working for the week, and I look forward to seeing this post evolve with y'all collaborating on it.

jnywong commented 2 months ago

Yes, @choldgraf (and anyone else), please feel free to directly contribute to this post in this PR 👍

Jenny would you be willing to be a co-author with me on this post?

Of course, great! Happy to provide feedback and edits after you have added your piece.

choldgraf commented 2 months ago

I've gone through the DEI post and made some edits with the following goals.

I'd love to hear thoughts from @jnywong on what you think about these changes. Please make any edits or changes of your own to make sure you think we're delivering the right message effectively!

jnywong commented 2 months ago

Hey @choldgraf , really great to see you riff off my initial stub and add the much-needed backward- and forward-looking perspectives to round out this post!

I am pleased to see you explicitly committing to more concrete plans that we can hold ourselves to in future.

There's rightly a lot of emphasis on bringing in new voices to the table, as we scale as an organisation, but we also need to remember to look within and retain brilliant talent over time as we mature https://github.com/2i2c-org/2i2c-org.github.io/pull/267/commits/cb7859e9ca8232dede1074e531e9e7440009cf95 .

For example, there have been previous efforts to map out career development for the engineering team and hopefully we can roll this process out across the whole team in the future. This is a "nice to think about, but not right now" item for this specific blog post.

Overall, I am happy with this going out once @damianavila gets a chance to take a look as requested!

choldgraf commented 2 months ago

Sounds good, thanks @jnywong - also just noting we've had an issue about this for a few years now, that we could either repurpose or replace. This is another one of those "good intentions" issues that we haven't yet had time to flesh out because of the chaotic nature of small and growing organizations:

Rather than block this PR on @damianavila's approval, can we instead give him 24 hours to either approve or request changes? If he approves, no changes are requested, or changes are requested and we make them, we can post in ~24 hours.

Does that work?

jnywong commented 2 months ago

I have resolved all the comments.

Damián is happy with this going public with the caveat that we hold ourselves accountable for what we say we'll do in the medium term.

Leaving this to @choldgraf to merge in to go live 🚀

choldgraf commented 2 months ago

I looked over the post again, and don't have any worries about the stuff we're saying or committing to in there. I think it will likely take more time than we think it will (it always does), but O(year or two) feels safe to try and I think this comes through in the post.

Thanks folks for seeding this conversation, I'm really hopeful we can make progress at a strategic level in the coming weeks, and see the benefits of this in the coming months/years.