Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement

[mrocklin]

I'm going through the CZI EOSS application process now. They ask for any information that our project has on our efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within our contributors and audience.

Advancing DEI is a core value for CZI, and we are requesting information on your efforts in this area. Describe any efforts the software project(s) named in this proposal have undertaken to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion with respect to their contributors and audience. Please see examples from successful first cycle applications ​(maximum of 250 words)

Other than generally trying to be good and welcoming human beings I don't think that we've done anything explicit here. Should we? Are there things that Dask community members are willing to take on to improve the situation? This might be things like mentoring interns from Outreachy?

It's symbolic, but we might also consider adopting a statement like the following: (lifted from PSF)

The Python Software Foundation and the global Python community welcome and encourage participation by everyone. Our community is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement, and we are working to help each other live up to these principles. We want our community to be more diverse: whoever you are, and whatever your background, we welcome you.

[TomAugspurger]

+1 to adopting a statement like that.

I’d support a mentorship program, but I won’t have the time to be a mentor in the short term unfortunately.

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 I'm going through the CZI EOSS application process now. They ask for any information that our project has on our efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within our contributors and audience.

Advancing DEI is a core value for CZI, and we are requesting information on your efforts in this area. Describe any efforts the software project(s) named in this proposal have undertaken to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion with respect to their contributors and audience. Please see examples from successful first cycle applications ​(maximum of 250 words)

Other than generally trying to be good and welcoming human beings I don't think that we've done anything explicit here. Should we? Are there things that Dask community members are willing to take on to improve the situation? This might be things like mentoring interns from Outreachy?

It's symbolic, but we might also consider adopting a statement like the following: (lifted from PSF)

The Python Software Foundation and the global Python community welcome and encourage participation by everyone. Our community is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement, and we are working to help each other live up to these principles. We want our community to be more diverse: whoever you are, and whatever your background, we welcome you.

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[mrocklin]

Thanks for commenting @TomAugspurger . I would love to get more community thoughts or buy-in on this before moving forward. I do think that it is important to engage in discussion here though if people have time, both because we seriously lack in diversity, and because, short term, this would be nice for the CZI EOSS proposal (which is now serving as a nice forcing function for this).

[jacobtomlinson]

+1 to the statement and a mentorship program.

With family commitments I don't have time to mentor in the short term, but perhaps in a few months.

In terms of other active things we can do, I'd like to hear from members of our community about what they would like to see. It would also be good to see examples of successes that other projects are having.

[mrocklin]

Should we adopt the Python diversity statement into this repository?

Should we publish it in our docs more broadly? (same with the current code of conduct)

Are there any changes that we would want to make to that text?

[jacobtomlinson]

Should we adopt the Python diversity statement into this repository?

I think so.

Should we publish it in our docs more broadly? (same with the current code of conduct)

Perhaps we should add it to the CONTRIBUTING.md files in each repo?

It also seems that projects on GitHub are recommended to create a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file. Perhaps we should add one to every repo which points to the main CoC?

Are there any changes that we would want to make to that text?

The Python one looks good. But perhaps we could find some other examples to see if there is anything else we would want in there?

[jcrist]

The PSF diversity statement makes sense to me.

Perhaps we should add it to the CONTRIBUTING.md files in each repo?

I'm in favor of keeping our CONTRIBUTING.md file short, but think putting a prominent link in https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/develop.html might make sense. Perhaps using a note tag to set it apart from the rest of the document.

[quasiben]

I am also +1 on the diversity statement. I also like @jcrist's suggestion of adding to the dask.org page

[mrocklin]

OK, I've pushed up a diversity statement in https://github.com/dask/governance/pull/16 and have pointed to that statement in a note in the developer docs in https://github.com/dask/dask/pull/5844